Question

What is the theme of Ode to a Grecian Urn? A. Beauty is eternal. B. Beauty is a universal language among friend and foe. C. both of these D. none of these

Answer 1

B. Beauty is a universal language among friend and foe

Step-by-step explanation:

Keats examines some themes in his poem, one of which is the concept of beauty and how it pertains to human life. He insisted that in the real word beauty is not everlasting, this is established in how people's life changes at different stages, people gets older and things gets decayed, but he also acknowledged that beauty is a universal language with the argument that beauty is truth.

Answer 2

Option B. The theme of "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is that beauty is eternal.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Ode to a Grecian urn" is a poem written by the English poet John Keats in May 1818 and anonymously published on 1820 in an Art magazine. The central theme of the poem examines the eternity that beauty and truth holds and relates them to how our own lives are transcendent. For the speaker,it is through beauty that humankind connects to the truth, and how complex it is for us to comprehend that both concepts, truth and beauty, are indeed eternal while our existence is not. The speaker is not only meditating on beauty and its connection to art but at the same time is trying to understand the complex emotions that death awakens in him, and how inevitable it is.