English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lyric Poetry, Ancient Literature

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2307E
• Professor: Krista Lysack

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In-class essay: you should have them back after reading week, you will get the handout of topics for your final essay before the break. In this case, the ode is about an object kind of excuse to draw a conclusion about beauty and truth. A still, unravished bride (a figure of innocence and beauty) The lovers are poised on the moment of consummation, but their desires are never met. A pastoral can be described as arcadian (an earthly paradise) Keats imagines this urn as having a pastoral style. It can be used as a genre, depicting an idyllic world: the speaker says that this is a cold pastoral. The urn is bittersweet because it depicts what seems to be a lively world, but it remains silent and frozen in time. It is an agent of imagining desire, but it can never entirely embody life. It is unavailable to us we have to try to make it speak to us.