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books and literature poetryWhat does leaf fringed legend mean in Ode on a Grecian Urn?
Thereof, what does the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn mean?
John Keats and A Summary of Ode On A Grecian Urn Ode On A Grecian Urn focuses on art, beauty, truth and time and is one of Keats' five odes, considered to be some of the best examples of romantic poetry. The poem is an example of ekphrasis, a Greek word meaning to describe a work of visual art in words.
Correspondingly, what do the last two lines of Ode on a Grecian Urn mean?
Unlike art, life is mutable; humans are able to fulfill their love, although they are also doomed to lose it. The meaning of the enigmatic last two lines—“ 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'—that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”—has been much debated.
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, He calls her the "unravish'd bride of quietness," which, if taken literally, would mean that the urn is married to a guy named Quietness.