"Ode on a Grecian Urn" The art of ancient Greece was to many writers in England, France, and Germany a source of inspiration in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. John Keats began to see works of art from Ancient Greece that was exhibited in a British museum. The urn of vase that he contemplated in the ode is a version of many of its kind. Keats saw different designs and examples of the ancient art that moved naturally and inevitably from love between men and women to religion. In "Grecian Urn" he tries to bring its scents into full reality, and to pursue the numerous implications they suggest. In the line that reads "The urn is still unravished br....

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