Ode on Grecian Urn

This poem is written in five stanzas made a quatrain and a sexain.

written with a elevated language with archaisms and innovation.
The author is looking at a decorated,ancient and Greek urn.
The scenes represented are: a young man who is trying to kiss a girl,
a musician who plays and the sacrifice of a wild heifer. The urn probably did no
t exist and is the result of imagination, the scenes are "cold pastoral" because
they are made of marble. the marble stops the scenes and then the guy did not e
ver kiss the girl. so the art Gives eternity and life Has the time. Life means e
njoyment and decay, art means grouping of eternal beauty, that is the truth. the
dualism eternity - time means,Therefore, the dualism art - life, where the art
is superior than the time of life, it will not decay.Keats usa the five senses;
the sight, the hearing when hear the silence and quiet and touch v30. there is a
paradox v11 that is the wait is better of expectation.
Keats
His imagination takes two main forms; firstly, the world of his poetry is artifi
cial,one that he imagines. secondly, his poetry comes from imagination, his work
is a vision of what he would like human life to be like.
the beauty is divided into two forms: the physical beauty that is caught in all
the forms nature acquires, and the spiritual beauty that is one at love,friendsh
ip and poetry.keats identifies beauty and truth as the only true types of knowle
dge
the poet's task is identified in what he called "negative capability", that is t
he capability the poet has to deny his certainties in order to identify himself
whit the object which is some of inspiration and the place of truth.
Coleridge
unlike wordsworth,coleridge didn't identify the nature with the divine. the form
of pantheism which wordsworth adopted. he saw the nature as the projection of t
he real world of ideas on the flux of time. the natural images carved abstract m
eanings that coleridge used in his poems.his contemplation of nature was always
accompanied by the awareness of the presence of the ideal in the real.in his mas
terpiece there is the combination of the supernatural and the real.
Coleridge distinguished between primary and secondary imagination. the primary h
as the fusion of perception and individual power to produce images, the secondar
y was the poetic faculty that built new worlds. imagination was more important t
han fancy that was the mechanical ability of the poet had to use devices like me
taphor and alliteration, in poetry, fancy was the way in which he could communic
ate his ideas and vision to everybody. through the fancy, coleridge shaped the m
aterial already provided into beautiful images. for example, when he described t
he sea shapes, he use the description of James Cook on his trips
The rime of ancient mariner
The ballad,the rime of the ancient marinare,is made up of seven parts and is int
roduced by are 'arguments'that is a summary of the whole poem. it consists of tw
o narrative:one is made up of the options but the rights of stanzas,the other as
te poem itself.
The story.
An ancient mariner met a wedding guest and start talking him his tale: he was an
a ship with his crew and a storm drave them to the south pole .suddendly it app
ared an albatross, and led them out of the antartic . But the marinare killed it
,than come a phantom ship,where death and life-in-death played the life of the c
rew and the safety of the ancient mariner could return home. the mariner started
to love all living brings but his punishment consist to tell his tale to everyb
ody he meets
The natural world.

The nature seems a character itself, because it interacts with the ancient marin
er, when he killed the albatross. the mariner offend the spiritual world linked
to the natural things, so he is punished. it is only at the end of the poem that
the mariner begins to respect the natural world, in order to respect god
The characters
the mariner and the crew are more types their human beings. the mariner is not m
oral agent, he is passive in his remorse. only the endthe marinergains his autho
rity, but he pays for it by remaining on outcast.coleridge makes him spectator a
nd actor, so he is calm telling his tale
The rime and traditional ballads
the poem contains the features of traditional ballads, that is the fourth-line s
tanza, archaic language, allitaration,repetition and onomatopeis, the theme of t
ravel and supernatural events. as it has a moral message, it is a romantic balla
d.
The killing of albatross
in the extract there isn't a setting in time,while the setting in place are at f
irst the street where the ancient mariner met he wedding guest and the wedding i
tself, and the boot , diving the tale. the ancient mariner is a old man,with a l
ong and grey beard,glittering and bright eyes and skinny hands. he turns to be a
magic characters nice he hypnotizes the wedding guest. his ship was directed to
santword and reach the equator, but during a storm the ship want further south
and reached the south pole. the appearance of the albatross dove the ship northw
ard and the ship reached the town of the mariner, that was done at the end of th
e tale, te ancient mariner kills the albatross. the rime is a ballad because it
is written in fourth-one stanzas, it is full of repetitions , it contains sort o
f refrain (9-13-18-20-38-40). it tells a dramatic story in verse it deals with s
upernatural events, it is written arcown language and it is a mixture of dialogu
es and narrations. the narration of the voyage is interrupted twice: at line 3640 with the brutal music and at lines 76-80, when the forest says what te throug
ht. the wedding guest seems curious, spellbound and frightend. At lines (41-50)
the poet personificated the storm saying it is strong, and he used the same poet
ic device when he personificated the ire ,saying it howled: the poet saw all the
natural world as connected to human being, and he saw the albatross as the bird
of good amen