LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Ode to Autumn
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Ode to a Nightingale
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the poem Ode on A Grecian Urn, Keats is charmed by the sculptural beauty of the Grecian urn. He is led to glorify the world of art and feels its superiority to the reality of human life. The world of art remains everlasting, ever beautiful, ever-appealing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Detailed explanation-3: -"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ’-that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” : This philosophical statement means that the real beauty of a thing lies on its permanence and that there is only one ultimate beauty in this world is truth which never perishes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The title of Ian Stewart’s book (he has written more than 60 others) is, of course, taken from the enigmatic last two lines of John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn": “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, "–that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. But what on earth did Keats mean? T. S.