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Teacher · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Mar/2008 Mesaje: 471

In case you havent' found it yet, here's a link to a webpage I have created to John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn:
http://otoiu.uv.ro/studenti/biblio/21_romantics/keats_urn.html

It has several reproductions of the imagery on Greek amphoras and urns, that will help you visualize the scene evoked by the poet.

And, of course, you're welcome to post here your thoughts on the poem.

ANAMARIA MURESAN

Something interesting on :
http://www.trilulilu.ro/alonewolf/fc4b4d7afa0a7c

Teacher · Administrator Data inscrierii: 26/Mar/2008 Mesaje: 471

Anamaria, thanks for sharing this resource with us. The images are illustrative and evokative, even if the recitation technique might not be on everyone's taste.

Romana Petrovan · Trimis: 18/01/2009 18:20 Titlul subiectului:

What are you thinking about when you see frozen beauty in it's "eternal sunshine" :-)

? me... it makes me think that we have a constantly changing life and that for this reason, a painting or an urn or an image (represented in a scenario that it's about to happen but in fact it never accomplishes) are lucky in a way because they can live forever. I keep on wondering :unsure:

if I would be happy to be forever in love for example (but this would mean that I couldn't be really living my love)... In the end I think I would rather live my true life and get hurt in stead of being in the same situation for eternity. I would prefer to have a finality to my love unlike a frozen situation...

ANAMARIA MURESAN · Trimis: 18/01/2009 19:24 Titlul subiectului:

Keats is preoccupied with depiction of pictures frozen in time. Urn is the "still unravish'd bride of quietness," the "foster-child of silence and slow time." Why he describes the urn as a "historian" ?

ANAMARIA MURESAN · Trimis: 18/01/2009 20:06 Titlul subiectului:

If the beauty is frozen will never fade!Will exist outside of time in the human sense:it does not age, it does not die....[/quote]