My Greaician Urn

The Ode on a Grecian Urn squarely confronts the truth that art is not "natural," like leaves on a tree, but artificial. The Ode on a Grecian Urn squarely confronts the truth that art is not "natural," like leaves on a tree, but artificial as terms of pure, "natural," nonrepresentational music prolonged in time. Keats expresses his thoughts and feelings about creation, expression, audience, sensation, thought, beauty, truth, and the fine arts. The Urn is an experiment in thinking about art in terms of pure, artificial, representational visuality extended in space.
The second stanza in Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” begins with the statement, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” Keats views art as something that is eternal and lets you experience what’s happening in the painting. While he cannot actually hear the music of the young man’s pipes, he can just imagine how sw...