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John Keats!. 1795–1821
625!. Ode on a Grecian Urn
THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape 5
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady!?
What men or gods are these!? What maidens loth!?
What mad pursuit!? What struggle to escape!?
What pipes and timbrels!? What wild ecstasy!? 10
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave 15
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
This is a poem about the passage of time!.
Keats is looking at an action scene on a pot unearthed in Greece, and he marvels at how the scene is frozen in time after perhaps 2500 years!. The scene is of a boy chasing a girl, and he writes in the second stanza, `fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave/thy song!.!.!.Bold lover, never canst thou kiss,' etc!.
The next two stanzas more-or-less gush over the picture of the same pot!. `And, happy melodist, unwearièd,/For ever piping songs for ever new' is perhaps a commentary on his own art as a poet!.
The last stanza looks forward in time rather than back: `when old age this generation shall waste,' he makes the obvious conclusion that the pot will still be around: `thou shalt remain!.' The last two lines are very famous , but have essentially nothing to do with the rest of the poem!. Indeed, two fundamental particles were named after this line: the third generation t- and b- quarks are called top and bottom, or sometimes truth and beauty!.
Stopping time is a constant theme in Keats!. The poem is more of an aural pleasure than an intellectual one; to my mind Autumn is a far more successful ode!. It is worth remembering that the ode form itself, like the urn, is Greek-- the poet should be imagined striding across the stage, back and forth, stanza by stanza, synthesis and antithesis sometimes, till he reaches his conclusion in the end!.
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well, i don't know if i can give it in clear detail!.!.!.
but i think its about the way of through someone humble with life!.!.!. not to take it for granted, and not to take it unapreciated!.!. to live life in wonder, intrest, and to see the beauty within all!.!.!.
its kind of a hard feeling to express!.!.!. kind of like the feeling you get when you have nothing to do but think about the life around you!.!.!.
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