Twisted Seduction After reading John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (782), the one theme that kept coming back to me was that the poem was being sensual. The narrator used words such as “ravished, wild ecstasy and sensual ear.” Imagine walking in on a man who is intimately examining a car and just by watching him it makes you uncomfortable. The poem reminded me of the show “My Strange Addiction” on TLC, particularly an episode in which a man gets sexually aroused by his car.
On the first stanza, “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time/”, if taken literally the narrator believes that the urn is the bride of Quietness, and daughter of Silence and Slow Time (1-2). Which seems rational because you
On the first stanza, “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time/”, if taken literally the narrator believes that the urn is the bride of Quietness, and daughter of Silence and Slow Time (1-2). Which seems rational because you