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ODE ON A GRECIAN URN

EX2

• a) The three different ways that the speaker addresses the urn are: "Thou still unravished bride", "Thou foster child" and "Sylvan historian". The two synonyms are "bride of quietness" and "foster-child of silence and slow time".
• b) The contradiction between "quietness", "silence" and "historian" is that the first two give a sense of peace and tranquillity instead historian give a sense of strength.
• c) "flowery" "leaf-fringed legend" are connected with the adjective "Sylvan" because make a reference with the elements of the wood.
• d) We learn, by the questions that, the scenes depicted on the urn are about men and maidens, mortals or deities, there is a pursuit, a struggle to escape and the re is a music played by pipes and timbrels.

EX3

• a) Keats explains that the music of the pipe depicted on the urn is sweeter because is an unheard memory.
• b) There are two scenes: in the first, there is a youth singing a song under the trees and in the second there are two lovers that they are going to kiss.
• c) Both scenes can't change because they are fixed on the urn.
• d) The consequences of their being unchanging are that the youth is destined to remain young forever and the two lovers will love forever, and the desire of the kiss remain unsatisfied and so remain strong.

EX4

• a) The words "happy" and "ever/forever" refers to the characters of the urn's scenes and the situations that are created. In the third stanza they are repeated eleven times.
• b) The reason that the poet give for the youth case of happiness is that he can play his melody unwearied, and forever new songs. And in the case of the two lovers he write that their love will remain forever warm and still to be enjoyed, forever painting and forever young.
• c) They have positive connotation.
• d) In the poet's attitude to the lovers scene in the second and in the third stanzas there is a kind of contradiction; in the second one he said that they may be not happy because they don't enjoy their love and in the third he said that they will be happy exactly because the don't enjoy their love.

EX5

• a) The scene described is a sacrifice of a heifer maybe because there were a bad fate on that village. The poet describe it by the using or questions.
• b) The dominant atmosphere is melancholy and enigmatic.

EX6

• a) The urn is overwrought of men and maidens, with forest branches and trodden weed, it's a silent form, but it has the power to tease us out of thought.
• b) We can identify the paradox of the first stanza on line 46/47/48.
• c) Cold because everything pass and everything died.

EX7

• a) The final message of the urn is that " beauty is truth, truth beauty"
• b) Art is a beautiful and true because it renders the essential elements of the human experience.