John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn", which you just heard, demonstrates many of the characteristics of a romantic piece of literature. The form of the poem is an Ode addressed to an inanimate object. In the Romantic period, an element of Romantic poetry was a lack of convention for time and space. Through Keats poetic form, he brings to life scenes painted on a 2000-year-old urn and the spirit of the artist who created it. Anther quality of Romanticism is movement and action. By describing the still life painted onto the urn as if it were living, Keats makes it as though he is watching…
