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Ode on a Grecian Urn
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
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As our minds settle, and our curiosity starts to contemplate the meaning of Ode on a Grecian urn, it suddenly, like stepping out from a dense forest into a vast plain, becomes very apparent.
Ode on a Grecian urn leaves us with an admiration for beauty, youth, time, and truth. It leaves us wondering about the larger perspectives in life.
It is not only the urn itself that is full of life and thought. The very poem itself is also built up in a way that keeps the reader intrigued.
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The second stanza dives deeper into the depiction of a silent historian, claiming that the ever-quiet music on the urn is sweeter than the music which can be heard.
The urn is compiled of moments frozen in time, a tree which can never shed its leaves, two young lovers on the verge of a kiss, their youth or love never fading. True, blissful moments captured forever.
Within the third stanza, the speaker returns to the trees of the urn, and how they will forever stay in spring, their leaves never falling. The music will forever be new, the musician forever be happy.
The speaker talks about how the figures on the urn will never be sad, they will always be warm, beautiful, and happy, and thus they are above the real world which is filled with sorrows and the passing of time.
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