In this writing Keats often refers the urn to various objects and beings that are alive yet unable to progress as if trapped in time like “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter…Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave” is he referring to the urn itself and the culture the urn is a part of or is he referring to whats inside the urn presumably some person’s ashes and the untold stories that are associated with him
Throughout most of the poem, the speaker seems to be analyzing the depictions on the Urn and imagining stories or a deeper plot that relates to each observation made. Along with these inferences, a certain level of closeness is present that suggests the speaker is projecting his own life experiences or knowledge onto the observations being made.
-Chadwick Green
What does “forgetting” have anything to do with the stanza of line 59 “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting”?
I feel like he is comparing life and death in some way here but it seems out of tone if that is the case
In the poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats exclaimed that “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.” Keats reasoning behind this thinking is because when his generations is long gone, the urn will remain, revealing the truth of the past.
How can Keats be so sure that “beauty is truth, truth is beauty”? Rather, wouldn’t the beauty , itself, mystify the truth?
Does age allow a person to appreciate the simple things around them?
“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.”
Does that mean that anything considered not true is a lie?
How can one distingush something from the two categories?
What is the standard for truth, thus make it real?
How can one persuade other that one’s standard is the “real” standard? Thus it is the “true” standard?
Is Sun Wukong not an immortal already? Only in travel it’s been several years – as Monkey King he’s served hundreds of years. Is his journey instead of enlightenment? Where is his void?
Is the monkeys search for eternal life supposed to signify how gullible humans are by nature, in their search for a higher being that can somehow bring them answers?
The Monkey King, Sun Wukong was born under unnatural circumstances and became king of the monkeys right after, so wouldn’t his meeting of an immortal and his journey so far be a set of instances pointing toward destiny? And if so is the author trying to convey that as humans, our everyday lives are part of our destiny with the ultimate goal being the acquisition of true enlightenment and immortality through heavenly teachings?
-Chadwick Green
By revealing that Monkey believed they needed something to save them does he point bring out the idea that humans also need something to believe in to move on with life? Are we like the monkey in any sense?