Activities at page 325 from “It’s Literature”

Ex 1

a.3

b.4

c.2

d.5

e.1

Ex 2

1. Bride of quietness, foster child of silence, sylvan historianà quiet creation of ancient times
2. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeterà imagination beats reality

Ex 3

1. For ever warm and still be enjoyed, for ever panting and for ever young; when old age shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain
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3. Sickness, emptiness, dryness
4. Cold pastoral: immobility, indifference, disgust, envy, horror, competition, lifelessness, distance

Friend to man: warmth, guidance, helpfulness, closeness

1. Beauty is the ultimate Truth in human life.

Ex 4

The Grecian urn addressed in the poemi s the starting point of the poet’s meditation on the immortality of art and the transience of life.

Both the title and the description of an Arcadian setting reflect Keats’s interest in ancient Greece and in its concept of harmony and beauty. The pastoral scenes and figures depicted on the urn are frozen in a permanent spring and have kept their sweetnes, youth and devotion fresh and untouched for the viewers of past and future generations.

In the contrast between the love scenes on the urn and real, human love the former emerge sas perfect and incorrupt, yet unfullfilled, while the latter, even though fulfilled is spoilt by unpleasant sensations.

Keats seems to be aware that the ideal world of the urn is “cold” and lifeless. And yet, this work of art, whose value simply lies in its being beautiful, will lst forever to revel the essence of Beauty, the supreme truth that man can reach.