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John Keats  A poet is a sage; A humanist, physician to all men His poetry Endymion 1818 Isabella 1818 The Eve of Saint Agnes 1820 Odes : 1819-1820 Ode to a Nightingale Ode to Autumn Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode on a Grecian Urn Here the poet gives his comment on a Greek vase which, as a relic of ancient culture, has caught his imagination. On the surface of the vase there is an ornamental band of sculpture with figures of trees, pipes, and lovers on it. Though there are quiet forms, they possess and convey the beauty, the significance and the eternity of art, which appealed to Keats. So at the end of the poem, the poet emphasizes the relationship between beauty and truth: “Beauty is truth, and truth beauty”, thus declaring his worship of beauty, esp. in the field of art. ODE ON A GRECIAN URNBy John Keats I Thou still unravished 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: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape ? ? ? Of deities or mortals, or of both, ? ? ? ? ? ? In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loath? ? ? ? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? ? ? ? ? ? ? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? II Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard ? ? ? Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, ? ? ? Pipe to the spirit dities of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave ? ? ? Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; ? ? ? ? ? ? Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal---yet, do not grieve; ? ? ? She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss ? ? ? ? ? ? Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair! III Ah, happy, hap