ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819 (see 1820 in poetry).

Detailed explanation-2: -Although he noted that Keats could be “wayward, trembling, easily daunted, ” Woodhouse was convinced of Keats’s genius, a poet to support as he became one of England’s greatest writers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ode on a Grecian Urn, poem in five stanzas by John Keats, published in 1820 in the collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. The ode has been called one of the greatest achievements of Romantic poetry, and it is also one of the most widely read poems in the English language.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Ode on a Grecian Urn” examines the close relationship between art, beauty, and truth. For the speaker, it is through beauty that humankind comes closest to truth-and through art that human beings can attain this beauty (though it remains a bittersweet achievement).

Detailed explanation-5: -In a few lines, Keats sketches these classical characters-the piper, the bold lover, and the young woman trapped in art’s dilemma: to be forever young, in love, and never alive. Unlike human reality, on the urn nobody ages, falls ill, breaks your heart, or dies.