"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- John Keats
In the ode on a Grecian urn , the duality of the theme is indicated , in the very opening stanza where keats gives us a contrast between something unchanging because it is alive . this equipoise is continued in the second stanza but the poet continues to toy with his dual matter without asserting or implying that lifeless permanence is superior or transient reality . nor does he indicates any preference in emphasis here , as in the second stanza is upon the warmth and the turbulence of life , we have not been made to feel that keats has any distinct preference for an unraised but permanent love over an actually experienced but transient but actual passion . in the fourth stanza , we are carried into a world that is permanent , but permanently empty , just as the figures on the urn are permanent , but permanenting lifeless. In the final stanza , the poet ends his duals game . here he emphatically addresses this thing of beauty as just what it is a grecian urn . this work of art , he says .has teased us out of the actual world into an ideals world where we can momentarily and imaginatively enjoy the life that is free from the imperfections of our lot here but this ideals world is not free of all imperfections : it has very grave deficiencies because it is lifeless , motionless , cold , and unreal......
- John Keats
In the ode on a Grecian urn , the duality of the theme is indicated , in the very opening stanza where keats gives us a contrast between something unchanging because it is alive . this equipoise is continued in the second stanza but the poet continues to toy with his dual matter without asserting or implying that lifeless permanence is superior or transient reality . nor does he indicates any preference in emphasis here , as in the second stanza is upon the warmth and the turbulence of life , we have not been made to feel that keats has any distinct preference for an unraised but permanent love over an actually experienced but transient but actual passion . in the fourth stanza , we are carried into a world that is permanent , but permanently empty , just as the figures on the urn are permanent , but permanenting lifeless. In the final stanza , the poet ends his duals game . here he emphatically addresses this thing of beauty as just what it is a grecian urn . this work of art , he says .has teased us out of the actual world into an ideals world where we can momentarily and imaginatively enjoy the life that is free from the imperfections of our lot here but this ideals world is not free of all imperfections : it has very grave deficiencies because it is lifeless , motionless , cold , and unreal......
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