Discuss Keats's treatment of life and art in "Ode to a Grecian Urn"
Discuss Keats's treatment of life and art in " Ode to a Grecian Urn ". Answer> The romantic of romantics , the worshipper of beauty,the embodiment of sensuousness,the escapist by nature and hellenistic John Keats in Ode to a Grecian Urn very aptly and masterfully blands the the world of life and the world of art. Most of his poem include the conflict between art and life;ideal and real;the temporal and eternal;the fluid and the flux . Among all his odes ,Ode to a Grecian Urn is surely the purest gem and a poem that adds a colourful feathers to the crown of romantic hero Keats. Keats imagines the identify of the people depicted on the vase and ponders if they are enviable because they are forever young and in love . He contrasts this idea with cold ,stagant ,nature of being frozen in the created scene. Keats's poem is an Ode,a lyrical style of poetry often written in celebration of a person ,place , thing and an idea. The poet has deeply analysised w...