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Ode on a Grecian Urn.pdf

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First Stanza<br />

-Emphasizes ancientness/mystery of urn ("...<br />

quietness / Thou foster-child of silence and<br />

slow time")<br />

-Emphasizes legends/supernatural found in<br />

myths ("Of deities or mortals, or of both")<br />

-Repeated questi<strong>on</strong>s (lines 8-10): set up<br />

following stanzas, emphasize how urn is<br />

mysterious/can't be fully defined or<br />

understood<br />

-Pers<strong>on</strong>ifies urn: "Thou," "foster child," "Sylvan<br />

historian"

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