The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats depicts the images and stories on a Grecian urn. Keats has the reader think about the difference between changeable real life and the immortal and permanent life on the urn. Also, the reader becomes mixed between observation of the art and participation in the art.
The first stanza depicts the urn as an "unravish'd bride" and a "foster child" (1-2). These words describe the urn as unaffected by time and immortal. Keats also seems unable to distinguish between mortal and immortal, like the urn compared to real time, "Of deities or mortals, or of both?" (6).
Stanza two shows Keats's torn feelings between the mortal and immortal world. He lists the advantages of the life on an urn, "She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, / For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!" (19-20), but if you read carefully, negative words pop-up within the advantages of the immortal urn, "Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, / Though winning......
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