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    The document is an essay discussing whether John Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is about man's concern with age. The introduction argues that the urn is used as a symbol to compare humanity to its permanence, as the stories and images on the urn will remain arrested in a single moment for eternity, while humans eventually die. Meanwhile, the love scene and spring scene depicted on the urn will remain loving and young forever, unlike human love which can fade with time and people who grow old and die.

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    The document is an essay discussing whether John Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is about man's concern with age. The introduction argues that the urn is used as a symbol to compare humanity to its permanence, as the stories and images on the urn will remain arrested in a single moment for eternity, while humans eventually die. Meanwhile, the love scene and spring scene depicted on the urn will remain loving and young forever, unlike human love which can fade with time and people who grow old and die.

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    The document is an essay discussing whether John Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is about man's concern with age. The introduction argues that the urn is used as a symbol to compare humanity to its permanence, as the stories and images on the urn will remain arrested in a single moment for eternity, while humans eventually die. Meanwhile, the love scene and spring scene depicted on the urn will remain loving and young forever, unlike human love which can fade with time and people who grow old and die.

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    Ode on a Grecian Urn Essay

    Ode on a Grecian Urn is about mens concern with age. Do


    you agree with this statement? In your response make detail
    reference from the poem.

    Introduction
    The poem Ode on a Grecian Urn written by John Keats is about
    mans concern with age. Keats is using the urn as a symbol to make
    a comparison with humanity. On the urn, the stories are forever
    preserved and will always communicate the actions arrested at a
    single instant. Only through imagination will the reader reach a
    human understanding of the message on the urn. The urn itself
    would remain new throughout eternality, but men would eventually
    die. The love scene on the urn would stay loving forever; conversely
    human love would fade away. The spring scene on the urn would
    stay young and beautiful forever whereas, humans would eventually
    reach an old age and die.

    In this poem, the urn is presented as a representation of humanity.


    The urn would remain new and lasting throughout eternity whereas,
    men would eventually die. The quote Thou foster-child of silence
    and slow time, demonstrates that the urn has slowly lived in the
    world of silence continuously. Meaning that the urn is living and
    would continue to live on for eternality.

    The love scene between the two humans on the urn signifies
    eternity as they are forever still. The love between them would not
    fade away as they are permanent and would stay in that position on
    the urn forever. Contrariwise, the love between one another would
    not be definite, meaning that it may last forever for some people,
    but it may also last for a short while only. Growing with age, the love
    may also slowly lose taste and would disappear.

    The spring scene on the urn would stay young and beautiful forever,
    whereas, humans would eventually reach an old age and die. The
    spring is comparing with beauty, demonstrating that beauty would
    last along with the spring, if beauty dies, then spring would fall and
    if spring falls, then beauty would die. They are somehow connecting
    with each other.

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