The first stanza focuses on the speaker, who is standing before an ancient Grecian urn. The speaker, preoccupied with its depiction of frozen form in time, addresses the urn. He refers to the urn as a "foster-child of silence and slow time." and a "still unravished bride of quietness," He is also quoted refering to the urn as a "historian," which can (in itself) tell a story. He also thinks about the figures on the side of the urn. He ponders where they originate from and what legends they represent. He examines a picture that portrays a group of men seeking-out a group of women, and ponders their story: "What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? / What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?"

The second stanza focuses on the speaker who is looking at another depiction on the urn. This time the depiction is of a young lad

playing a pipe (of some sort) lying in harmony with his lover. The speaker quotes that the "silent" melodies of the piper are sweeter than "aloud" melodies, due to their being not affected by time. He is quoted speaking to the youth that, although he can never kiss his lover due to his being stuck in time, he should not and will not grieve, because the beauty she posses will never fade.

In the final stanza, the speaker once again speaks to the urn, quoting that it, like eternity, "doth tease us out of thought." He begins to think that when his generation is deceased, the urn will remain, telling future generations its lesson: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." The speaker says that is the only thing the urn knows, and the only thing it needs to know.

It is my hope that this brief summary and analysis has provided you, the reader, with a good understanding of one of Keat's famous poems, Ode on a Grecian Urn. It has definitely proved fun and interesting to research and detail this poem. But it will definitely prove much more fun and exciting to research the next, now that I have some information, etc... on John Keat's poetry.

In the first stanza, he examines the depiction of the "mad pursuit," and wonders what story lies behind it. Of course, the urn can never tell him the whos, whats, whens, and wheres of the stories it depicts, and the speaker is forced to abandon this line of questioning.

Ode on a Grecian Urn follows the same Ode-stanza structure as many Ode-poems do. Each of "Grecian Urn's" five stanzas is ten lines long, metered in a very precise iambic pentameter, and divided into a two-part rhyme scheme; the last three lines are variable. The first seven lines of each stanza follow an ABABCDE rhyme scheme, but the second occurrences of the CDE sounds do not follow the same order.

It is true that the speaker progresses in engagement with the urn throughout the text. His curiosity in the first attempt gives way to a deep

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Approximate Word count = 1315
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)