A Tribute to Keats’ Sylvan Aesthetics



A Poet’s Masterpiece:
Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
So raw, yet well-cooked!

About this poem

“Ode to a Grecian Urn “ is a poem composed by English Romantic poet John Keats in 1819. This three-line haiku poem highlights Keats’ five-stanza classical poem about a sylvan urn that tells its own story. The third line of this haiku poem employs the metaphor of “the raw and the cooked,” a term the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (in 1964) used to classify cultures and civilizations; and which embodies Keats’ own metaphorical use of the term “sylvan” in his framing description of contrasts of the historically old and the historically new.  

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Written on January 03, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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