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John Keats was a very determined writer. Although he did not live a long life, he wrote many poems despite his illness. The poems he wrote are still famous today. One thing I found to be surprising about Keats was he learned everything he knew on his own. This surprised
me because when you read his poems, you would think he was well equipped
with an education.
I thought, \\\\\\\"Ode on a Grecian Urn\\\\\\\" was a very interesting poem because it uses such dynamic word usage . I loved how Keats made the urn the central symbol in the poem. With the urn being the central symbol of the poem there are so many interpertations you can get from the poem depending on your personal views.
The urn is a sculpture with many different cravings of people, animals, and plant life. The cravings on the urn are suspended in time. However this sculptor, the \\\\\\\"urn\\\\\\\", is used to create a sense of living and the different actions we go through in life.
A few of the interpertaions I evaluated from the poem were, life versus art and reality versus non reality. Life versus art is an interpertation I evaluated because life is short as we all know, but art lives forever. Reality versus non reality is another interpertation I evaluated and I got that from the poet in the poem who constantly is caught in between two worlds, one where nothing changes and everything stays the same and one where things change and people die.
Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape
The word \\\\\\\"still\\\\\\\" is a word Keats continues to use throughoout the poem and it represents time and motion. The urn is part of the real world which as we know is always changing at any rate at any time. However the life of the urn is...
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