Ode on a Grecian Urn

Title: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 254 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Keats describes his reaction to a Grecian urn painted with images of maidens, pipers and other Greeks. While the melody of modern day pipes may be sweet, Keats finds the painted pipes sweeter. They are not mere sensual pleasure, but guide one to a higher sense of ideal beauty. The other images have a similar effect, as they are frozen forever at the moment of highest perfection. One part of the urn shows a youth …showed first 75 words of 254 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 254 total…him to establish the most just of social realities. The poem also captures a delicate sense of balance between pleasure and pain. The youth is caught, for instance, between the painful anxiety preceding his kiss and the pleasure of the kiss itself. The trees are at their peak, on the border of Fall and their death. It is this moment, between pleasure and pain, death and life, that was most treasured by the Romantic poets.

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