Imagination In Keats

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the urn exhibits will tell a greater tale then the image he sees. The speaker must believe that the imagination is the greatest thing because he wishes not to hear any of the music. He would rather look to the urn and see a man pictured smiling and staying on key then having the real thing present and playing.
The piping music is the ideal form of music when viewed from the urn. Since the urn has pictures frozen in time, one can see the pipe players always pictured the same way. This idea can make the observer hear the unheard music in his head and create a new song in his mind. Keats wanted to show the whole realm of imagination and he does this by explaining the sweet music and the pictures it portrays. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" shows full imagination because it deals with the observer's imagination toward the urn. "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter…" The point that Keats wanted to get across is that many people could look at the same urn and have a mental ...

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