EXERCISES AT PAGE 325 – ACTIVITY ON ‘ODE ON A GRECIAN URN’

EXERCISE 1

1 e

2 c

3 d

4 b

5 a

EXERCISE 2

a) Bride of quietness: quiet creation of ancient times

Foster - child: purity and harmony

Sylvan historian: witness of a bucolic past

b) He claims that fantasy is sweeter than reality.

EXERCISE 3

a) ‘For ever pipping songs for ever new’

‘For ever warm and still to be enjoy’d’

‘For ever painting, and for even young’

b) they never bid the spiring adieu; he’s unwearied

c) sadness, sickness, illness, dryness

d) Cold Pastoral: immobility, indifference, disgust, distance

Friend to man: warmth, helpfulness, closeness

EXERCISE 4

Meditation

Transience

Arcadian

Pastoral

Youth

Contrast

Unfulfilled

Unpleasant

Beauty

Truth