LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
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A Thing of Beauty
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La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
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Detailed explanation-1: -Line 19: She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, The woman he wants will not fade = she will not grow ugly and old. On the other hand, he will never be happy, Line 20: For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Detailed explanation-2: -The meaning of the enigmatic last two lines-“ ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ’-that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”-has been much debated.
Detailed explanation-3: -The last two lines of this poem “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” are much-debated by literary critics. The personified “Grecian urn” utters these lines to humankind. These lines mean the thing of beauty is truth and vice versa.
Detailed explanation-4: -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!