Analysis:
A Significant Analysis and Interpretation of John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
John Keats wrote the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” in 1819. The poem explores an ancient Greek relic (an urn) and describes what an individual may perceive the scene etched into the side of the urn to be. Keats suggest that it could be a divine scene and compares it to that nature when he writes “Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu”. Yet, in the end Keats writes how the urn will outlive the observer and will always be around to allow for interpretation because that is all that it knows. (Keats) In stanza two, Keats begins to move away from the constant questioning to begin to compare the urn to that of a melody or a ditty. Interestingly enough Keats writes “Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone” which to me illustrates that the observer (the narrator in the poem) is describing the scene on the urn as that of a scene that should or could create musical tune but because the image is a forever still image it is kind of frozen in time and thus they ditty has stopped and no longer …show more content…
I have always understood and have been aware that we are reading poems from poets of vastly desperate time periods some of which have been dead for centuries yet I have often been indifferent and reluctant to consider the fact that words that in modern day English that have clear meanings could have had such different meaning in another time period in which a poem by poets such as Keats was written. Therefore, I think this assignment made my life harder by now forcing me to be suspicious of some terms if the phrasing seems a little flunky and is going to add time to my homework for the class. However, understand the meaning and context of all the words of the poem will give me a more in depth and intimate understanding of the poem and I believe will help me further my skills at reading and understanding
A Significant Analysis and Interpretation of John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
John Keats wrote the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” in 1819. The poem explores an ancient Greek relic (an urn) and describes what an individual may perceive the scene etched into the side of the urn to be. Keats suggest that it could be a divine scene and compares it to that nature when he writes “Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu”. Yet, in the end Keats writes how the urn will outlive the observer and will always be around to allow for interpretation because that is all that it knows. (Keats) In stanza two, Keats begins to move away from the constant questioning to begin to compare the urn to that of a melody or a ditty. Interestingly enough Keats writes “Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone” which to me illustrates that the observer (the narrator in the poem) is describing the scene on the urn as that of a scene that should or could create musical tune but because the image is a forever still image it is kind of frozen in time and thus they ditty has stopped and no longer …show more content…
I have always understood and have been aware that we are reading poems from poets of vastly desperate time periods some of which have been dead for centuries yet I have often been indifferent and reluctant to consider the fact that words that in modern day English that have clear meanings could have had such different meaning in another time period in which a poem by poets such as Keats was written. Therefore, I think this assignment made my life harder by now forcing me to be suspicious of some terms if the phrasing seems a little flunky and is going to add time to my homework for the class. However, understand the meaning and context of all the words of the poem will give me a more in depth and intimate understanding of the poem and I believe will help me further my skills at reading and understanding