Hi Here is my Presentation Paper No : 5 The Romantic Literature

1. Name : Riddhi Maru
Semester : 2
Batch : 2016-2018
Roll No : 21
Paper No : 5
Unit No : 1
Submitted To : M.K.bhavnagar university ,
Department of English
Email id : riddhimaru27@gmail.com

2. John Keats was an English Romantic poet
He was born in 31 October 1795 in London
“ the ode to Grecian Urn “ was Witten in
1819

3. 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

4.  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

5. The speaker stands before an ancient
Grecian urn and addresses it .
Preoccupied with its depiction of pictures
frozen in time.
He also describes the am as a ‘historian’
that can tell a story.

6.  The speaker looks at another picture on the
urn, this time of a young man playing a pipe.
 Lying with his lover beneath a glade of trees.
 The speaker says that the piper’s “unheard
"melodies are sweeter than mortal melodies.
 He tells the youth that, though he can never
kiss his lover because he is frozen in time.

7. Looks at the trees surrounding the lovers
and feels happy that they will never shed
their leaves.
He is happy for the piper because his
songs will be for ever new.
Happy that the love of the boy and the girl
will last forever, unlike moral love