Ode_On_A_Grecian_Urn

Ode On A Grecian Urn Ode on a Grecian Urn Summary In the first stanza, the speaker, standing before an ancient Grecian urn, addresses the urn, preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. It is the "still unravish'd bride of quietness," the "foster-child of silence and slow time." He also describes the urn as a "historian," which can tell a story. He wonders about the figures on the side of the urn, and asks what legend they depict, and where they are from. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group of men pursuing a group of women, and wonders what their story could be: "What mad pursuit' What struggle to escape' / What pipes and timbrels' What wild ecstasy'" In the second stanza, the speaker looks at another picture on the urn, this time of a young man playing a pipe, lying with his urn, ode, grecian, speaker, stanza, time, human, truth, never, beauty, first, figures, picture, lines, know, each, town, three, stanzas, second, scheme, rhyme, one, ode, because, attempt, wonders, though, third, story, lover, love, little, life, last, frozen, engage