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1-. What sort of music is it that plays only to the spirit (line 14)? And what sort of love is it that can never cease pursuit and never fade (lines15-20)?

The music mentioned, can be compared with words which in the context of the urn are ineffective.
Because the urn’s power tells a story where words are unnecessary . In this case “no tone” , was the best way of giving joy to the sublime memory of past Grecian times.
The love that can never cease pursuit and never fade is that one what was portrayed in the precise moment of its highest expression, it was trapped in the figure of the urn and will live forever there.

2-. What recapitulation of stanza 2 occurs in stanza 3?

In this stanza occurs a recapitulation re-introducing some images as the lover, the trees and the musician. The obsever made a emphasis in this figures because he is emotionally participating in the life of the urn, and a feeling of jealousy overcomes him, because of the forever young trees in spring, the always new melodies and the never-ending love, the observer could love and hate the urn at the same time.
These images express the idea of eternity, they will always be in that state which is the main positive feautre of art, passess on time.

3-. In stanza 4 we come to the religious procession. The scene is clear, but why should the poet be puzzled –why should he ask about the “litle town” from which the procession come ( lines35-40)?

4-. In the final stanza the poet exclaims, “cold pastoral” (line 45). The scenes themselves are “pastoral” in that they are rural woodland scenes with men and maidens, the piper, the procession. And the scenes are “cold” in the sense that they are now preserved in the cold material of the urn. In what other sense, is the urn a “cold” pastoral?

5-. What is the beauty that Keats has seen in the urn? What truth do you think the urn conveys about the...