Commentary Ode on a Grecian Urn
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Commentary: Ode on a Grecian Urn
In the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn", by John Keats, he uses sound and imagery to communicate the mood of the poem to the reader. The two important concepts in this poem are the eternity of the picture of the urn and the superiority of the urn.
From the beginning of the poem, the reader learns that there are pictures of gods, maidens, pipes, timbrels and that there is a type of struggle pictured on the urn. The reader learns this from the questions asked by the persona about the urn. In the second stanza, the concept of eternity is evolved and the reader learns that the music played by the pipes will last forever. Then the reader learns that the lovers will always love each other and that the moment right before a kiss will never end. Also, the boughs will never lose their leaves and this again shows the eternity; the beautiful moments will never end. Those pictures are on the urn so they are eternal and will never change and this is what makes them great.
The rhyming scheme of this poem separates each stanza in two clear sections. The first four lines and the last six lines of each stanza are always separated by a punctuation mark which tells the reader that the content will most likely be different in those two sections as well...