In this poem, the speaker comments that “heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter” while observing a piper playing music and two lovers about to kiss. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this ekphrastic poem whose title subject is addressed as a “still unravish’d bride of quietness” and a “foster child of silence and slow time.” This poem ends by declaring that “beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
ANSWER: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
[10e] “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is by this Romantic English poet, whose other works include “La Belle Dame sans Merci” and “Ode to a Nightingale.”
ANSWER: John Keats
[10h] Following Keats’ death, Percy Shelley eulogized him in this elegy. This poem asks, “Where was lorn Urania when [the title character of this poem] died?”
ANSWER: “Adonais” (“add-on-AY-iss”) [or “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc.”]
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