The speaker addresses the urn with the exclamatory o attic shape or this is what you look like 41.
O attic shape fair attitude.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity.
45 when old age shall this generation waste thou shalt remain in midst of other woe than ours a friend to man to whom thou say st.
Here he draws our attention away from the imagined scenes of empty towns which closed the fourth stanza and returns to the urn with an emphasis on its materiality.
When old age shall this generation waste thou shalt remain in midst of other woe.
When old age shall this generation waste thou shalt remain in midst of other woe than ours a friend to man to whom thou sayst.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
When old age shall this generation waste thou shalt remain in midst of other woe than ours a friend to man to whom thou say st.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
By the end of the ode the attic shape has shaped the poet s attitude so much so that the poet senses the urn influencing his understanding of beauty truth and what is really important in life.
When old age shall this generation waste thou shalt remain in midst of other woe.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
Thou silent form dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
When old age shall this generation waste thou shalt remain in midst of other woe than ours a friend to man to whom thou say st.
With brede of marble men and maidens overwrought with forest branches and the trodden weed.
When old age shall this generation waste thou shalt remain in midst of other woe than ours a friend to man to whom thou say st.
This thing with its attic shape and fair attitude is a dead thing.