John Keats, a renowned romantic poet, showcases his poetic talents in his poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. The poem is written in iambic pentameter and follows a hybrid format of Shakespearean quatrain and Petrarchan sestet. It depicts both joyful scenes of festivities, nature, and love, as well as darker themes of unfulfillment and desolation, all forever etched on the Urn. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE |||||||

Keats employs paradox to generate thought and explore underlying themes. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| The examination of paradox reveals humanity's incapability to achieve perfection, and the artist's goal seems to be to metaphysically transcend through art to uncover the abstract truth of perfection. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| The ambiguity of apostrophe in the poem reveals a second aspect of Keats' work - that abstract truth cannot be definitively distinguished by humans, as even the imaginative eye is limited by perspective. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE |||||||

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