Ode to Grecian Urn By Keats.
Introduction
:-
John
Keats was an English romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the
second generation of romantic poets along with Loard Byron and P.B.Shelley. He
was born on 1795 in London and died in 1821 Italy. Keats greatest are the odes
published in 1820.
He
was famous for his odes which are :-
1).
Ode to Grecian Urn.
2). Ode to Autumn.
3). Ode to Nightingale.
4). Ode to Phyche.
5). Ode to Melancholy.
6).ode to Indolence.
2). Ode to Autumn.
3). Ode to Nightingale.
4). Ode to Phyche.
5). Ode to Melancholy.
6).ode to Indolence.
An urn was a kind of vase generally made by marble or of brass.
Often different kinds scene and situation were caves on the outer surface of
urn. Keats conveys his idea about various scenes depicted on the urn. He says
" Art has an aesthetic function and moral function".
Ode
to Grecian Urn gives as much important to passion as to the idea of
performance.
He
says that.....
"Beauty is truth,
truth is beauty".
Urn - Unchanging world and temporal life
REALITY
- Ideal, Art
IMAGINATION
- Urn
Fist
stanza - the speaker stands before an ancient Grecian urn and address.
Second
stanza - another picture on the urn, young man playing a pipe, lying with his
lover.
Third
stanza - he looks at the trees surrounding the lovers and feels happy that they
will never shed their leaves.
Fourth
stanza - second picture on the urn one of a group of villagers leading and
heifer to be sacrificed
Fifth
stanza - this stanza talk about the urn itself it like eternity.
Main
theme
- future
- present
- past
- present
- past
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