Summary Of Ode On A Grecian Urn

Primary Source #1 Title: ”Ode On A Grecian Urn”

Summary: The poem starts with Keats talking about a Grecian Urn “depicted” with pictures which is frozen in time.The Urn tells a story like a “storyteller”.But the story in the Urn is still and frozen, it will never change with time.Then he talks about trees whose leaves will never fall; “a bold lover who can never kiss” but will keep running after a girl and he has an advantage, he will never grow old and the girl will never fade away.The trees will never shed leaves and the spring will never end.It will continue to be spring until the Urn is there, “it will be forever joyful, warm and forever young”.On the Urn there is a picture in which a priest sacrificing a cow, all the houses, streets are empty and silent.They will never return, it will be empty forever as the story is frozen in time.Keats think the Urn will keep telling the story to future generations when his generation will die.Time will continue to go on but the story won’t change.The Urn knows nothing more than the story it knows.

Primary Source #_2 Title: “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”

Summary: This poem starts with Keat’s fear of death.He is worried that he will die young.He fears that his life as a poet will be incomplete.He wants fame, love in his life.He wants people to

Summary: The speaker in the poem sees a knight who is alone and “palely loitering”.The flowers in the lake are dry and no birds are singing.The speaker is asking what happened to him.The knight’s condition is bad, his cheeks look like “fading rose”.The knight says he met a lady in the meads who was very pretty.The lady had long hair, fair complexion, and her eyes were wild.The lady acted as if she liked the knight.The knight made a garland for her head and bracelets too.She said she loves the knight.Then the lady took him to her “Elfin grot” and put him to sleep.He dreams about weird things like pale kings, princes when he wakes up he finds himself in the