...by recognizing that his poem cannot achieve such a state, a fact he recognizes in calling the urn a "Sylvan historian, who canst thus express / A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme" (11. 3-4). "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a work of what I want to call Cockney classicism that seeks to...

...Suggestion des Fragens und der konkreten Bilder und Bezüge vergegenwärtigt wird. »Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,/ Thou foster-child of silence...thus express/ A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:«'3 Das Evozierte, das doch von dem, der es evoziert, abhängig ist, wird als das ästhetisch...

...closed, harmonious form of the artifact. Thou still unravished hride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweedy than our rhyme. The line "Thou foster child of silence and slow time" indicates that on the...

...establishes the concentrated intensity of the observer's subjective contemplation: Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and...about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both. In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What...

...an inability to know precisely what is being looked at. Consider these lines from the first stanza: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? Presumably, if one knew what was being looked at on the urn, one could...

...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What...

...strict form. Here's part of a famous ode by John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and...about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What...

...rivalry between pictorial and verbal art, and then asks about the static figures depicted on its surface: Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery...about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What...

...water beside the white chickens. ODE ON A GRECIAN URN (John Keats, 1795-1821) 1 Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and...express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales...

...of art : Thou still unravished hride of quietnem, Thou foster-chiId of silence and slow timr, SyIvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What Ieaf-fringed legend haunts ahout thy shape Of deities or mortals or of hoth, In Tempe or the dales...