TRANSIENCE AND PERMANENCE: KEATS

Art symbolises both beauty and truth: 'beauty is truth, truth beauty'. life is transient while art is permanent. keats present a contrast between art and life. wildlife is transit Re art is permanent the grecian urn is a work of art. the poet is wondering over the requisite beauty of the urn he is looking at. he calls it the 'unravished bride of quietness ','The foster child of silence and slow time' and 'a sylvan historian'. there are pipers and musicians carved on it .there is a picture of young boy singing a song, trees that will never shed their leaves and a sacrificial scene in which a priest is leading a calf to be sacrificed at the altar . the poet calls this beauty of art the real truth as it will remain a source of everlasting joy. Art is a friend to man because it transports man to a word of endless joy and beauty there is a love scene carved on the surface of the urn. the sculptor has immortalized both the beauty of the beloved and the intensity of the love . does it is shown that art is permanent and forever true.: