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Poem · 1819

Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats

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Poem · 1819 · English · Romantic

Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats

Figures frozen a moment before consummation.

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The urn's famous last lines are a riddle, not a moral: eternity is purchased by never arriving.

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Figures frozen a moment before consummation.

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