Explore the presentation of the past in an ‘ode to a Grecian urn’ and one other poem
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'—that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
Past in Grecian urn- humans stuck in time on urn- mutability of mankind- transience- uses
imagination to explore past- not real thing- highly metaphorical- urn itself ancient and
passed down- imaginary past better than present- urn is ‘cold pastrol’ by the end- tone
shifts- relic of past
Psyche/eve of
In second generation romantic poet John Keats’ ‘Ode to Grecain urn’, one of his five
summer odes written in 1819 , and his