By this sentence the poet want to describe that the woman is married with the bride of quietness which is not a real marriage but a hypothetical. The bride is quiet, as she cannot speak because she is an image in the urn.
" Foster child of silence and slow time"
The child is foster because she is probably a very young lady, in her teens that it looks like she is a foster child. Silence is again used to describe that she can't speak and to show a figure of calm. Finally slow time is used to give the impression that time is passing very slowly.
" Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter"
The point that Keats wants to make is that many people could look at the same
The urn conveys that human are mortal and that everybody is going to die. Only, this peace of world will stay in eternity. The urn will remain youthful through the time while the views will grow old with age and die.
What biographical note is there in the third stranza ?
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