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Unit 6: Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

6.6 Review Questions Notes

1. Throw light on the major works of John Keats.
2. Throw light on the life of John Keats.

3. Talk about John Keats and Isabella Jones.
4. How did John Keats spend the last few months of his life in Rome and his death?
5. What does the title of the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn refer to?
6. What is the poet examining in the first stanza?
7. What scenes and images are depicted on the Urn?

8. What does the word “brede” mean in the last stanza? Why is the urn “overwrought”?
9. What religious ritual is depicted on the urn in stanza four?
10. In stanza three, what will never happen to the painted tree’s leaves?

11. Why is the urn a “friend to man”?
12. Do you agree when the urn says that this statement is all humanity knows on earth?
Do you agree when the urn says this is all we need to know?

13. Critically analyse the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Answers: Self Assessment

1. (b) 2. (b)
3. (a) 4. (a)
5. (d)

6.7 Further Readings

Books Kaufmann S. and Wiedenmann S., Keats: Ode to a Nightingale – A Grecian Urn.
A Comparison.
Keats J. (1991) Lyric Poems, Courier Dover Publications.
Keats J. (2004) Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems, Kessinger Publishing.
Keats J. (2011) Poems of John Keats, Penguin Adult.

Online links http://sarmada.hubpages.com/hub/THEMES-IN-JOHN-KEATS-ODE-ON-A-
GRECIAN-URN

http://www.bartleby.com/101/625.html
http://www.shmoop.com/ode-grecian-urn/summary.html

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