LITOPAEDIA

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty..." Ode on a Grecian Urn in six ods of John Keats, the speaker addresses the Grecian Urn describing it as a bride of quietness and a child of silence in time. Even though the urn is an inanimate object he also sees it as a kind of historian that has witnessed both Gods and mortals in its lifetime. The speaker asks the urn questions and addresses elements of the urn's fair youth who can't ever leave and the painted tree branches that won't go bare as he says a bold lover seeking a kiss, he notes the act cannot be completed through his generation will grow old and die, the urn will remain in the midst of other woes than ours for generations to come. He imagines the urn observing the beauty and the truth are the same thing and that is all he know on earth and all ye need to know. This is one of Keats' most famous poems, he examines the object first in its entirety and then attends to the specific scenes depicted on it as Keats aga...

Brief Introduction about the poet: John Keats  John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795. Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. But over his short development, he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the sonnet, to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic, defining anew their possibilities with his distinctive fusion of earnest energy, control of conflicting perspectives and forces, poetic self-consciousness, and, occasionally, dry ironic wit. Keats belonged to the second generation of the romantic poet along with Lord Byron and PB Shelly. He was greatly influenced by Edmund Spencer, Leigh Hunt, John Milton and William Hazlitt. Keats died of tuberculosis. Keats was regarded as the sensuous poet, as his poem arouses the senses of the readers. Mathew Arnold regarded Keats as 'Abundauntly and enchanting...