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The analysis of the theme of Ode on a Grecian Urn 【abstract】With great appreciation of the romantic poet John Keatss poem Ode on a Grecian Um, the author tries to present her own understanding and feelings of the poem by analyzing the poem in its theme in detail. Besides, this paper also contains some characteristics of John Keats and his odes. 【keywords】beauty true art eternal pure Ode to a Grecian Urn In the early 19th century it was not unusual to make a work of art, painting or sculpture a subject of a poem. Taken literally, the poem Ode to a Grecian Urn is a poem about a vase, but Keats has inverted the traditional understanding of physical, tangible objects and transformed them into metaphors for abstract concepts, such as truth and time. An urn is primarily used to preserve the ashes of the dead. The theme of the Ode, accordingly, has to do with the relationship between imagination and actuality, and the supremacy and immortality of a work of art if compared to our ordinary life. Beauty is true, true beauty. In Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats talks about aesthetic beauty and perfection. Art, the urn, represents beauty. Beauty is truth and so art also represents truth. Keatss Ode on a Grecian Urn offers a paradoxical concept of Beauty. It describes the frozen beauty portrayed on the Urn as sweeter than reality, for its expiration is a locked impossibility. The lovers kiss is sweeter when in waiting, and her timeless beauty and devotion are worth the kisss impossibility. Thus, the observation of beauty is sweeter than its reception, and objects in their prime are best just before their expiration. The purpose of this is to exaggerate his message of timeless beauty. The urn will forever show the same scene of the trees in full bloom, never to “bid the Spring adieu”. “More happy love. More happy, happy love!”; describing the love of the young couple, Keats says that they will be “for ever warm”, “for ever panting”, and “for ever young”. In this, the spe