NCHS AP English Language

Hannah Robinson Kyle Smith and Tyler Smith Odes to a Grecian Urn

ODE TO A GRECIAN URN

The line that most relates to the quote on pg 7 of a Light in August is
THOU still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:


The references to spring encompass the idea of Lena bearing a child in the near future. Just as in Spring everything blossoms; Lena is blossoming with a child. Her trip however to find her lover is wearied and monotonous; while there are changes occuring in her trip they are the same changes over and over again. Every day the sun rises and sets; darkness overcomes her. The section of the poem which talks about slow time describes the feeling of Lena that time just keeps moving forever.

Hannah Robinson
Kyle Smith
Tyler Smith

posted by NCHS AP English Language III @ 9:14 AM