2. John Keats
He was an English romantic poet
He was born in 31th October 1795 in London
The Ode To Grecian Urn was written in 1819
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4. Ode on a Grecian Urn
Central idea- superiority of art
Description of various scene
Five stanza
1. Describes urn beauty and praise
2. Musician and tree
3. Lover and beloved
4. Sacrifice
5. Message ‘Beauty is truth, truth is beauty- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to
know.’
6. Through this poem Keats tell us about:
Human Life
1. Aging
2. Changes
3. Finite Love
4. Death
5. Decay
6. Desperation
7. Immortality in the stillness and silence of classical sculpture
8. Stillness- a kind of desolation but not a formal perfection
7. Scenes on the Urn:
One scene- lover and maiden in a grove of trees & a pipe
Another scene- a crowd on its way to a ritual sacrifice and a ‘mysterious priest’
leading a heifer to an altar
The trees- never lose their leaves
The maiden & the lover- love will never fade; he will never reach her
8. A work of art is an expression of beauty
Beauty is truth and truth is beauty
Art has an aesthetic function
Art has a moral function
Art provides comfort and solace to many generations
9. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty
Nature
Human relation
Death
Time and universal
10. Nature
Nature will never fail anyone
Its touch of beauty is forever
Time passes but nature is there
Example: Sea waves are always beautiful
weather its quiet or large
11. Human relation
Based on three qualities:
1. TRUST
2. Honesty
3. Faith
Closeness of pain and pleasure
Example: A marriage of a girl
12. Death
Body dies but not the soul
It’s the new beginning
Free from worldly task
God’s reward and punishment for actions is over
13. Time and Universal
Art is immortal
Permanence of beauty and truth
Art teaches
14. My opinion about this poem:
Truth and beauty bring us into a relationship with, and a participation in, the order
of being
Intense feeling is an undeniable fact
Beauty exists in the imagination
See things in a positive way
In this world of pain and decay art alone remain
