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Keats Ode on a Grecian  :

Keats was a romantic poet and where in most of his poems we find the solace of romance in this poem Keats has changed it to the solace of art. The theme of Ode on a Grecian Urn is about the attempt to escape from the complexities of time and escape into the world of unchanging art although it is achieved at a certain price. It considers the arresting of time and life by art as both profit and loss-it represents the escape from change and decay into eternity, but at the expense of eternal fulfillment: the "unravished bride" remains forever between the wedding ceremony and the bridal bed, as it were. Beauty and permanence remain with the figures on the urn, but they are after all only an "Attic shape", and "attitude", a "cold pastoral". The Text Ode on a Grecian Urn Thou still unravish'd 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-fring'd 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? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave.