Mod A (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

Question 1

-Celebration of life despite its transcience

“more happy ….! more ….. ….. love! for ever …. and ….. to be enjoyed”

Answer 1

“more happy love! more happy happy love! for ever warm and still to be enjoyed”

• REPETITION of happy
• EXCLAMATORY TONE creates idyllic atmosphere

Question 2

• Eternity
• Victim to time
• Art
• Ability to preserve the past

“fair ….., beneath the ….., thou ….. not …. thy song”

Answer 2

“fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave thy song”

• “fair youth” may be REMINISCENT of Keats himself
• he is forever ENCASED in his playing, cannot abandon his music- Keats being unable to abandon his poetic craft

Question 3

• Constant prescence of inevitable death even in happiness
• Harmful nature of love

“all breathing ….. ……. far above, that …… a heart ….-……… and cloyed, a burning …….., and a parching tongue”

Answer 3

“all breathing human passion far above, that leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, a burning forehead, and a parching tongue”

• IMAGERY of lungs highlights Keats tuberculosis
• MORBID IMAGERY “passion combined with “high sorrowful”, “burning”, “cloyed” indicating that love is hurtful.
• OSCILILATION between moments of bliss and desire, with grim reminders of mortality and finiteness of life