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John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn In Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats describes his reaction to a Grecian urn painted with images of maidens, pipers and other Greeks. While the melody of modern day pipes may be sweet, Keats finds the painted pipes sweeter. They are not mere sensual pleasure, but guide one to a higher sense of ideal beauty. The other images have a similar effect, as they are frozen forever at the moment of highest perfection. One part of the urn shows a youth about to kiss a maid. Keats envies the lover, for though he wil