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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Ode on a Grecian Urn: Critique and Analysis/ Keats’s poem is much like Keats himself meditated on the urn to explore his own emotions. Discuss!


Ode on a Grecian Urn: Critique and Analysis/ Keats’s poem is much like Keats himself meditated on the urn to explore his own emotions. Discuss!
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” was written in May of 1819 when Keats was 23 years old and his life was in emotional turmoil. In the previous six months his brother Tom had died, and he had met and fallen in love with Fanny Brawne who, at the time the poem was written, lived next door to him in Hamstead.
It was a period of intense creativity during which Keats wrote his great odes; in them, he explored his emotions by addressing, describing and questioning some idea or symbol that he celebrated. Keats’s odes are a form of meditative poetry. In meditation, a person thinks intensely upon and draws conclusions from a subject. By writing an ode, originally a Greek poetic form, Keats is making his own claim to permanence. The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is Keats’s own “silent form” meant to perform a similar function — “tease us out of thought” — as that of the original Greek urn, that, ironically, does not exist. There is smooth transition of ideas and emotions in the poem starting with:



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