Ode on a Grecian Urn short lecture

[Roflpwnify]

Fantastic Video

[MissFrencatko]

thank you! Could you do the same for Endymion?

[mititzi]

@cweevin9 Yeah, my whole senior English class is British literature.

[mon1ca3264]

beautiful !! :)

[emannyc2002]

also- the idea that the pictures on the art will never grow old and die is not that original. and the use of an urn (made of clay) as something that is imortal... seems kinda flimsy. thats why i think you should concentrate on that last line

[emannyc2002]

ok you described the poem thats nice but .. to me, you didn't really delve much deeper than that.

to me , you should be discussing that monumental bomb he drops at the end . the -beauty is truth line . go deeper into discussion on that .. is it true ? is beauty truth and truth beauty. give and discuss examples.

[tgeer123]

I have an exam in 6 hours and this really did help. thanks a lot man

[thestitchedimage]

Thanks for the help. :)

[TheKasimpasa]

gay Grecian

[breagadoir]

Very interesting thank you.

[BubbaFrench]

Good explanation!!

[SakuraChama]

I like how Keats uses the image of the urn and its frozen couple to represent his work, and his aspirations that it too would endure as the urn.

Keats' urn is his poetry, he can be seen as the creator of the urn in his creation of his poetry.

[dddaaaannnnn]

I'm not quite sure that Keats sees immortality in any form is the unqualified good that you suggest, SakuraChama, but yours is an interesting take on the poem, to be sure.

[rastabus]

This only really makes me rue the fact I'll never see Hazlitt's lectures even more...

[poetryanimations]

Thanks Stacy yet another essential video lecture from your very knowledgable self 5 stars and intomy favourites and I have posted my latest animation of Keats reading the poem as a video response.

Kind Regards

Jim Clark

[saberous33]

I had once heard someone say that they had no idea what Keats' famous poem was about until about the thirteenth time he read it.

I have only read it a few times, and I also couldn't decipher the work - as a whole. Small pieces pierced my mind's eye, but it's literal meaning was lost on me.

So thank you for helping to illuminate the circumstance and motivation for this, oft considered sublimest ode.

[andystephenu]

Great analysis. What truly intrigues me about Keats was his theory on Negative Capability.

[aznjokeryou]

pretty good =)

is there any analysis on Wallace Stevens?