"Ode on Grecian Urn"
"Ode on Grecian Urn" The poet or the speaker is standing before an ancient Grecian urn and addresses it. His attention is focused on the depiction of pictures on the urn . He describes the urn as a historian tells a story. He wonders about the figures on the side of the urn and asks what story they depict and from where they come. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group of men following a group of women and wonders what their story could be. Next the speaker looks at another picture on the urn, this time of a young man playing a pipe, lying with his lover under a tree. The poet says that the piper’s unheard melodies are sweeter than mortal melodies because they are unaffected and unchanged by time. He tells the youth that, though he can never kiss his lover because he is frozen at one place, he should not feel sad, because her beauty will never remove from her face. Next, he looks at the trees surrounding the lovers and feels happy that leave