Ode on a Grecian Urn - the pyramid

Ode on a Grecian Urn - the Pyramid

This activity gave me the possibility of summarizing and understanding what the essence of the poem is. 

Keats, through the careful study of the pictures on the urn, sees in the static frames a transcendental truth. I think this is brilliant: Keats' capacity to wrench life and complexity out from the superficiality and shallowness that the carvings on an urn can signify to most people.Keats' profound thinking and obvious higher level of understanding are exposed through his study of the grecian Urn. 

Keats sees the universal struggle for eternity and timeless in the Urn.

Keats envies the figures on the urn but at the same time questions their naure and somewhere in the way empathizes with them. He knows that their passions will never fade, yet he understands they will never consummate their love as long as they are stuck in the eternity of the urn. Their only purpose is to teach new generations when 'old age shall this generation waste'; their passions a study and reflection of human nature for humankind to reflect upon eternally through time.