Imagery In Ode On a Grecian Urn

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Task : Write a note on the theme and imagery in “The Ode to the Grecian Urn” and show how beauty is truth and integral part of the poem??? John Keats poetry is full of imagery. Imagery in his poetry is synesthetic. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is also filled with such scenes which can be imagined by the reader upon reading the ode at once. Reader can look into the scenes which Keats has described in Ode on a Grecian Urn. In the very beginning of the poem, Urn is personified. It is the main focus of the poem which is treated in several ways. We know from the name of the poem that it is about a Grecian Urn. In the first four lines of the ode, we see that the Urn is presented as a bride, then as a foster child, then a historian. These comparisons are productive an can be visualized by the reader upon reading the ode at once. The urn is an as yet unravished bride of quiteness. It is not a wife. This may mean that the pictures and engravings on the urn are as sharp as the day it was made; if it had been ravished by quietness, the figures on the urn might not speak to the poem's speaker as strongly as they do. Then the urn is shown as an adopted child of silence and slow time. This may refer to the urn as a product of the busyness and industry of an artisan's workshop that now, probably in a museum, stands separate from the bustle and noise of human life.The next imagery related to urn is that of a historian of the woodlands, expressing a tale more sweetly than the poet can. The imagery in second stanzais straightforward, yet it is used to express complex ideas: unheard melodies are sweeter than heard melodies, so "pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone"; the lover who will never kiss, yet who will love forever. The "sweeter unheard melodies" is an
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