Analyse the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by Keats.
Ans.'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is one of John Keats' most famous poems. He was 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 period.' They are known as his 'Great Odes of 1819'. The theme of Ode on a Grecian Urn is about the attempt to escape from the complexities of time and escape into the world of unchanging art although it is achieved at a certain price. It considers the arresting of time and life by art as both profit and loss-it represents the change and decay into eternity, but at the expense of eternal fulfilment: the " unravished bride" remains forever between the wedding ceremony and the bridal bed, as it were. Beauty and permanence remain with the figures on the urn, but they after all only an "Attic shape", and "attitude", a "cold pastoral". Summary of the Poem escape from The is both to and on a Grecian Urn as the poet is both talking 'to poem the Urn' by addressing it as a bride while it is 'on the urn' because the poet is detailing about the pictures drawn on the urn. The poet addresses the urn and calls it the bride of quietness and the child of silence and slow time as if it is wedded for ever to quietness and also it is unchanged or unchangeable because a piece of art is a permanent thing. So the bride is 'still unravished'. In this poem, the poet believes that the pictures on the urn are frozen in time; therefore, they will never change or come to an end.
In the first stanza, the speaker stands before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. He is preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. It is the "still unravish'd bride of quietne. "
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