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'''Ode on a Grecian Urn''' poem by [[John Keats]] first published in January 1820. It is thought not to be based on any specific Greek vase. |
'''Ode on a Grecian Urn''' is a poem by [[John Keats]] first published in January 1820. It is thought not to be based on any specific Greek vase. |
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Ode on a Grecian Urn is a poem by John Keats first published in January 1820. It is thought not to be based on any specific Greek vase.
It begins
"Thou still unravished bride of quiteness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time..."
and ends with the famous lines
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
One of the English language's more famous poems, it has often been parodied. Desmond Skirrow 'summarized' it thus: "Gods chase/Round vase./What say?/What play?/Don't know./Nice, though."