Robert’s Blogs

After doing a little bit a research and reading and annotating the poem Ode on a Grecian Urnby John Keats, I delved into different themes like Keats not being able to see the difference between the real and imaginary world and how the poem portrays the beauty and art in nature/ everyday life. This poem was difficult to understand because of the use of old time English, but like most English poems the context was filled with “flowery” diction. This specific dictionpointed the spot light of the audience right on to this grecian urn that was magnificent, but cursed to be silent and never to reach its goals. I mean that the paintings on the urns are stuck in mid action creating a false sense of time or artificial time that will never allow the lovers to finally kiss or the tree limbs not being able to shed their leaves. Keats in this poem becomes consumed by this grecian urn not only for its beauty but his imagination takes him to a different places that the images of the urn provoke. He is able to see beauty in many things that he comes to a conclusion after pondering at the urn.