Ode On A Grecin Urn
March 8 2001
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Throughout his "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Keats uses innocent, unfulfilled images painted on the urn, to demonstrate the theme of innocence and eternal beauty.
In the first stanza the speaker standing before an ancient Grecian urn, addresses the urn, preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. This is where Keats first introduces the theme of eternal innocence and beauty with the reference to the "unvarnished bride of quietness"(Keats). Because she has not yet engaged in sexual actions, the urn portrays the bride in this state, and she will remain like so forever. Also in the first stanza he examines the picture of the "mad pursuit," and wonders what the actual story is behind the picture. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group of men pursuing a group of woman and wonders what they could be doing. "What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and trimbels? What wild ecstasy"(Keats). Of course, the urn......
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