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Poetry Of John Keats: 'Ode On A Grecian Urn,' Introduction

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Keats, John

Keats, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
"Ode On A Grecian Urn," Introduction:

This ode is frequently treated as Keats' central poem, as a key to the
understanding and appreciation of all his work, and with its reiteration of
all the major themes, its richness of imagery, its superb craftsmanship, it is
quite capable of filling such a role. Literally hundreds of interpretations
have been offered of it, no one of which, as Walter Jackson Bate has said,
"satisfies anyone except the interpreter," for "too many different elements
converge" in these stanzas to make for an easy consensus. Yet though ...

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