Attic referring to attica the region of greece where athens lies brede braid referring to the way the figures are painted around the urn pastoral a kind of poem or other literary work that focuses on and usually praises rural life especially the life of shepherds.
Attic shape ode grecian urn.
When old age shall this generation waste.
The poem is one of the great odes of 1819 which also include ode on indolence ode on melancholy ode to a nightingale and ode to psyche.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
Attica is greece and attic means relating to greece or athens.
The urn itself is ancient.
The term attic shape in the final stanza is a synonym for the urn itself.
Therefore attic shape is a parallel construction.
It s been passed down over the millennia.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity.
A reference to the urn the poet refers to the elegance and simplicity of the athenian attic means athenian sculpture of ancient greece 9.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
Of the five grecian urn and melancholy are merely dated 1819.
Keats found existing forms in poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose and in this collection he presented a new development of the ode form.
An undefined speaker looks at a grecian urn which is decorated with evocative images of rustic and rural life in ancient greece.
Written in 1819 ode on a grecian urn was the third of the five great odes of 1819 which are generally believed to have been written in the following order psyche nightingale grecian urn melancholy and autumn.
He was inspired to write the poem after reading two.
Reference to the figures on the urn.
Ode on a grecian urn by john keats.
Ode on a grecian urn was written by the influential english poet john keats in 1819.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought.
And the grecian urn too will not offer up the answers.
A piece of embroidery 10.
When old age shall this generation waste thou shalt remain in midst of other woe than ours a friend to man to whom thou say st.
Once again as in the first stanza of ode on a grecian urn keats reminds us and himself that he will never learn the answer to these questions because the townsfolk are all dead and will remain silent.