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John Keats (1795-1821) Life and Literary Career Life in poverty and poor health Premature death （aged 26） “Here lies one whose name was writ in water” ---inscription on his tombstone Major Works Long poems: “Endymion”《恩底弥瓮》 “Isabella”《伊萨贝拉》 “The Eve of St. Agnes”《圣爱格尼斯之夜》 “Lamia” 《莱米亚》 To Autumn”《秋颂》 “Hyperion” 《赫披里昂》 “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket” a sonnet Short lyrics: five odes, his most important “Ode to Psyche”《灵魂颂》 “ Ode on Indolence” 《懒惰颂》 “Ode on a Grecian Urn”《希腊古瓮颂》 “Ode on Melancholy”《哀感》 “Ode to a Nightingale”《夜莺颂》 Characteristics of Keats’ Poetry Love of nature, romantic love Glorification of beauty Exquisite sensibility and keen observation Sensuous description and rich imagery Love for classics “…excellence of every Art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with Beauty and Truth” (每一种艺术的卓越都在于它的强烈性，它能够消除一切不愉快的事情，因为它们都与美和真有密切关系） Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats The first stanza Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Notes Sylvan（森林的） historian: Sylvan means rustic, representing a woodland scene. Here “Sylvan historian” refers to the urn telling a pastoral tale. Tempe（溪谷）: a beautiful valley in Greece, regarded as sacred to Apollo, the God of poetry. Arcady（世外桃源）: an ancient place in Greece, often used as a symbol of the pastoral ideal. loth:=loath unwilling. timbrels: tambourines(手鼓) or similar instruments Question 1 Indentify details of the scene that is described in stanzas 1. In the first stanza, the spe