" This poem speaks of a figure that can "express a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme," and it asks questions like "what struggle to escape?"
Dennis R. Dean has argued that one line in this poem is intended as a quote of Joshua Reynolds, and the lines "Don't know / Nice, though" appear in a Desmond Skirrow poem titled for [this poem] "summarized." This poem speaks of a figure that can "express a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme," and it asks questions like "what struggle to escape?" and "what wild ecstasy?" Another section of this poems asks "what little town by river or sea-shore [. . .] is emptied of its folk, this pious morn?" This poem describes a (*) "happy melodist, unwearied, for ever piping songs for ever new" after claiming that "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." This poem addresses "thou still unravish'd bride of quietness," and it ends by proclaiming something "that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." For 10 points, name this poem that claims "beauty is truth, truth beauty," an ode by John Keats.
Dennis R. Dean has argued that one line in this poem is intended as a quote of Joshua Reynolds, and the lines "Don't know / Nice, though" appear in a Desmond Skirrow poem titled for [this poem] "summarized.
“{Ode on a Grecian Urn}”