When old age shall this generation waste.
Attic shape ode grecian urn.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity.
Reference to the figures on the urn.
A reference to the urn the poet refers to the elegance and simplicity of the athenian attic means athenian sculpture of ancient greece 9.
The term attic shape in the final stanza is a synonym for the urn itself.
He was inspired to write the poem after reading two.
Ode on a grecian urn was written by the influential english poet john keats in 1819.
Ode on a grecian urn by john keats.
A piece of embroidery 10.
Written in 1819 ode on a grecian urn was the third of the five great odes of 1819 which are generally believed to have been written in the following order psyche nightingale grecian urn melancholy and autumn.
And the grecian urn too will not offer up the answers.
Therefore attic shape is a parallel construction.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought.
Of the five grecian urn and melancholy are merely dated 1819.
The poem is one of the great odes of 1819 which also include ode on indolence ode on melancholy ode to a nightingale and ode to psyche.
It is a complex mysterious poem with a disarmingly simple set up.
Ode on a grecian urn is a poem written by the english romantic poet john keats in may 1819 first published anonymously in annals of the fine arts for 1819.
Attica is greece and attic means relating to greece or athens.
Attic referring to attica the region of greece where athens lies brede braid referring to the way the figures are painted around the urn pastoral a kind of poem or other literary work that focuses on and usually praises rural life especially the life of shepherds.
Keats found existing forms in poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose and in this collection he presented a new development of the ode form.
An undefined speaker looks at a grecian urn which is decorated with evocative images of rustic and rural life in ancient greece.
The urn itself is ancient.
Once again as in the first stanza of ode on a grecian urn keats reminds us and himself that he will never learn the answer to these questions because the townsfolk are all dead and will remain silent.
It s been passed down over the millennia.
John keats is perhaps most famous for his odes such as this one ode on a grecian urn as well as ode to a nightingale in which the poet deals with the expressive nature of music ode on a grecian urn is another attempt to engage with the beauty of art and nature this time addressing a piece of pottery from ancient greece.
