Question

What is the speaker telling the Grecian urn in these lines from “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

He wishes the urn could talk so he could hear its stories.

He knows the urn will still be around for others to see after he is dead.

He fears that when he gets old, the urn will suffer because nobody else will take care of it.

He wishes the people frozen on the urn could warm up and come to life.

Answer 1

I think it is the 2nd answer. "He knows the urn will still be around for others to see after he is dead." Im not 100% sure but i hope it helps.

Answer 2

The correct answer is the second one. In John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn", the speaker knows the urn will still be around for others to see after he is dead. In the final lines of the poem, he says "When old age shall this generation waste / Thou shalt remain [...] a friend to man", which goes to show that the urn will outlive the speaker's own generation and remain a testimony of beauty for centuries to come.