Ode on a grecian urn by john keats poetry foundation. Ode on a grecian urn follows the same ode stanza structure as the ode on melancholy, though it varies more the rhyme scheme of the last three lines of each stanza. Its purity is not childlike its a bride, after all but it is virginal nonetheless. Ode on a grecian urn by john keats read by tom obedlam.
But these odes arent sonnets, because each stanza only has ten lines, whereas a sonnet has fourteen lines. The point is that the urn is married, but still chaste. In the first stanza, the speaker stands before an ancient grecian urn and addresses it. Each of the five stanzas in grecian urn is ten lines long, metered in a relatively precise iambic pentameter, and divided into a two part rhyme scheme, the last. In fact, on the page, grecian urn looks like five short sonnets in a row. Not just in the literary sense, referring to a group of english writers working in the first half of the 19th century, but also in the more modern sense of a guy whose life is filled with drama and passion. Ode on a grecian urn was written by the influential english poet john keats in 1819. It is a complex, mysterious poem with a disarmingly simple setup. The ode a grecian urn, for example, was borne out of keatss tinkering with the sonnet form.
Ode on a grecian urn and other poems quotes by john keats. The innocence of the urn is connected to sexual purity with this line. So, for example the urn is referred to as a bride of quietness. Ode on a grecian urn introduction john keats practically defines the term romantic. The dramatic situationthe narrators puzzling oneway exchange with the urn as he views the scenes painted upon. A man is whispering sweet nothings to a grecian urn. The urn exists in the middle between innocence and experience. Dive deep into ode on a grecian urn by john keats anywhere you go. Ode on a grecian urn and other poems by john keats 244 ratings, 4. Keats died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, shortly after the publication of his last book of poems, which included the ode on a grecian urn. In the age of facebook and twitter, we can often tailor our lives to look ideal to others, creating our own little grecian urn. Hes a romantic poet, and he wrote it in 1819 along with a bunch of other odes he was kind of going through a little bit of an.
Ode on a grecian urn is one of john keats most famous poems. The ode is formed as a series of images which are described and considered. Choose from 220 different sets of ode grecian urn flashcards on quizlet. Keats, john ode on a grecian urn appunto di letteratura inglese sulla vita, lideologia, lo stile, le caratteristiche di keats e il componimento ode on a grecian urn. Ode on a grecian urn shmoop poetry guide slideshare. These scenes fascinate, mystify, and excite the speaker in.