John Keats - Ode On A Grecian Urn

John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn", which you just heard, demonstrates many of the characteristics of a romantic piece of literature. The form of the poem is an Ode addressed to an inanimate object. In the Romantic period, an element of Romantic poetry was a lack of convention for time and space. Through Keats poetic form, he brings to life scenes painted on a 2000-year-old urn and the spirit of the artist who created …

…great example of a paradox revealing a truth about life. A symbol is anything that has a meaning of its own but also stands for something beyond itself. In the poem, the urn was symbolic of eternity because it would always be in its preserved state. The reason I choose Ode on a Grecian Urn was due to the fact that it was the only one of Keats' odes which didn't speak about fading away.