Ode on A Grecian Urn

"The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreables evaporate from their being in close relationship with Beauty and Truth." John Keats John Keats was born October 31, 1795. Keats published three books of poetry during his lifetime, but was dismissed as a middle-class interloper by most critics. He had no advantages of birth, wealth, or education; he lost his parents during his childhood, watched one brother die of tuberculosis and the other …

…ry controversal between critics. I believe these last two lines relate to Keats fantasy world. In the eyes of John Keats, the urn is perfected beauty and art is superior to reality. Unlike Keats present circumstances, dying from his illness, art does not undergo changes. The perfected beauty of the urn is truth and satisfaction to Keats. No matter what challenges life has placed his way, his truth, that of the urn is his peace.