Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

[arainaification]

heard music is sweet...unheard is sweeter...will anyone ever understand keats fully?

i doubt it he was just above any human understanding.

[davyjsmith]

can anybody tell me what they think of this poem? I'm not really grasping what it is about.

[HorrorGuy67]

i have always been very fond of this poem ever since i first read it back in high school. Something about the fact that Keats was dying and how he began to look at things in such a way that we as a people tend to take for granted . And the idea that the story on the urn would and , indeed live on and continued even after death.

[HAPPYTHELEAF]

Happy indeed the leaf, unable to predict the fall..

[HANNALIRA90]

actually the poem is my assignment so i had to read it( and listen to the correct pronunciation and diction). and i was well astonished that the poem was read, the speaker were as if the poet or the speaker himself. thanks for sharing this vid. people across the globe will definitely need this one.

[aledalgogu]

oye que buena onda maestro

[passionchris123]

very true! time is an essence in this poem...the persona talks about the immortalising the beauty in an object, but at the same time, the persona is distraught as the movements and activities are captured in that very moment that the objects and characters will be forever dead at the same time

[beggo321]

time is a major factor in this poem, everything on this urn will last for all eternity, the lovers will always be in the mad persuit of the women and the boughs of the tree will never be bare, the people who went to the sacrifice left their desolate town and will never return

[Maria12thNight]

The right tone and voice timbre for this poem. Emphasis where emphasis is required. I know, all too well, how difficult it is to be accurate in one's reading of a poem, more often than not enthusiastic expressivety usurps the substance of the text. Thank you for your remarkable and subtle reading.

[brychar66]

Thanks Maria. There's a coincidence - have been reading 12th Night these last few days, a play I dearly love. So tender, playful and funny! I entirely agree with your wise opinion of poetry reading. Charles.

[uwdawgs20022002]

Great Job. I am trying to memorize this poem right now and your recitation has really helped me out. Cheers!

[brychar66]

:) good luck!

[VanVitot]

We can get the Knowledge through Beauty of Art which has the duty to comfort the men. Like the warm love of that boy... He knows that he will never get his beloved girl, however his love will be immortalized in that Urn, and it will be eternal... For this reason Keat said that The urn is a friend for the men. This poem comfort and advise every generation...

[gnikcohs]

A poem, can be extremely multiplex, existing in many, many forms (even conflicting) for different people. One has the right to say, 'I like it this way, (and no other)'; a legitimate personal response to a powerful object. The error is in believing one's response to have the same universality as the poem itself.

Keats might have read this poem in his old age, in just such a solemn and stately way.

Brychar66 understands the auditory potential of this poem and delivers on it.

[brychar66]

A fascinating comment. I agree with your first paragraph whole-heartedly: a profound and moving statement. And I am equally deeply touched by your second paragraph. You have made my day. My thanks, Charles.

[ianskidmore]

@gnikcohs didn't have an old age,alas. great loss

[AvivaLeeFori24six]

Thank you so very, very much.

[Monkfish05]

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter". I think people saying you are too old for this poem are missing the point entirely....He is speaking of eternity and many of his themes relate to wisdom, not learned but intuitive, of the soul, and nothing to do with Physical age. I want the "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" stanza on my gravestone (not too soon lol). Or maybe "Illegitimi Non Carborundum" (Faux) haha, lets see how it goes :). Thanks for posting Boss....Very good.

[brychar66]

Thanks for your comments!

[beggo321]

i think it means that things we imagine are sweeter than what we experience in reality

[MissHill27]

I have no words, Simply gorgeous. I'm studying this poet, his kind of poetry is so great, everything in his life was horrible but he had such a sensible soul to be able to write these amazing things.

[MissHill27]

I have no words, Simply gorgeous. I'm studying this poet, his kind of poetry is so great, everything in his life was horrible but he had such a sensible soul to be able to write these amazing things.

[crestfallenangel]

hey we get a bit of keats, and a bit of heated debate in this classroom, quality! love this poem, and i thought you read it nicely. i get this really prominent humming from the audio over the voice which i feel spoils it a little. cheers

[brychar66]

glad you like it - I've got a new webcam now, so hopefully my latest vids are not so noisy!

[MinisterKikko]

Great work Brychar, i'm italian and i'm listening at this poem and your work to improve my english!

Realy great work, complimenti!

[brychar66]

glad to be of assistance!

[farliesbirthday]

No passion, really. The poem of a young man being read by an older man. Sorry.

[brychar66]

you are suggesting that all young men's poems be read by young men and all old men's poems by old men, etc? what about verse plays? if one of Shakespeare's plays calls for an old man, the part must be played by a middle aged man or whatever depending on the age Shakespeare was when he wrote the piece? what do you mean by passion? shouting and getting over excited? not my style.

[farliesbirthday]

Arnold said of Keats, "he is with Shakespeare", - and actors perform Shakespeare with pace, empathy and unforced expression - qualities that you may indeed possess, but which are not on show here. Listen, I love Keats. I like him read well.

[brychar66]

fine so make a video for You Tube and let's hear how you like it done.

[farliesbirthday]

Touchy. Actually, I have read poetry at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, Poetry on the Lake in Italy, for the Radio..Common ground: We both love Keats, but I'm too old to do the poem justice, and you are far too old.

[brychar66]

hehe now you are doing yourself an injustice, as well as me. as i say in the notes my favourite reading of this was by Robert Donat (wish someone would post that!) and he was over 50 when he made that recording, and his voice was fairly cracked with pulmonary disease. it's a very cool calm poem in any case, certainly not passionate. Bride of quietness, foster child of silence and slow time....a meditative poem well suited to an old voice - or so I think!

[farliesbirthday]

Cool and calm poem..?

She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,

For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

At least we both agree, the poem is wonderful.

[samuelgodfreygeorge]

A dignified reading befitting the theme, and the profound truth conveyed by the poem, is ably supported by images and music. This is a worthy effort indeed.

[brychar66]

thanks Sam

[darito90]

ahahahahahahahahahaha shame Ganeev