Ode on a Grecian Urn

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by John keats. If I remember correctly, this poem was in 11th standard syllabus. The beauty of this poem is that it glorifies the moments that had been depicted on an Urn through a series of paintings. The urn is part of Greek's history. It captures the essence of all the emotions viz, longingness, desperation, ecstasy and a whole lot of other entities in one particular moment. John keats feels that the artist succeeded in immortalising that moment forever. Drawing a parallel from his another famous line "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" this urn is the epitome of all that is beautiful and in turn is a joy forever. It makes me deduct that anything that is beautiful and anything that is joyful can belong to this moment alone. Anything that belongs to the past you can think and can only try to bring back those memories. Anything that belongs to a possible future, you can just imagine and can only calculate the permutations and combination of the events. But if you are to feel the beauty and joy you can do that only at this moment. For that matter anything that involves feeling can only be felt at this moment, not in the past and never in the future. We can surmise the above philosophical maze in a simple sentence and that is "This moment is inevitable".

It seems John keats felt the same way and gave life to his feelings in a way that is best suited to him; thorough his poetry. "Ode on a grecian urn"