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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
meaning of "Cold Pastoral"
In this line of John Keats's Ode ‘On a Grecian Urn’:
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Does "cold pastoral" mean "simultaneously warm and cold" or "cold and lifeless"?
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Does "cold pastoral" mean "simultaneously warm and cold" or "cold and lifeless"?
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red apple Does "cold pastoral" mean "simultaneously warm and cold" or "cold and lifeless"? Neither. It just means that it is a country scene that is not actually warm (alive).
- red apple Does "cold pastoral" mean "simultaneously warm and cold" or "cold and lifeless"?
- Neither.
- It just means that it is a country scene that is not actually warm (alive).
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red appleDoes "cold pastoral" mean "simultaneously warm and cold" or "cold and lifeless"?Neither. It just means that it is a country scene that is not actually warm (alive).
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red appleDoes "cold pastoral" mean ... ?It's the poet's description of the scene on the urn. It's "cold", i.e., "frozen" (in time), and it depicts pastoral activities — activities typical of rural life.
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I thought because "cold pastoral" comes after ":" it should be describing the "eternity". So, what is the role of that ":"?
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red apple So, what is the role of that ":"?It marks a two-word summary of the whole previous part of the stanza.
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