<span>"Sound devices, also known as musical devices, are elements of literature and poetry that emphasize sound. The most common sound devices are assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme and onomatopoeia." </span>
After reading the passage from the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," we can answer the questions about topic and theme in the following manner:
The topic of the passage is the illustration painted on an urn. It shows pipers, a tree, and a man and a woman who seem to be in love.
What Keats says about them is that the tree will never lose its leaves, and the song played by the pipers will never cease. When it comes to the couple, he says the man should not be said that he will never kiss the woman (since the image cannot move). Instead, he should be happy that their love will continue and she will remain young and beautiful.
With that, the theme expressed in the passage is one of timelessness, the eternity of art.
<h3 /><h3>What is the poem about?</h3>
The famous poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," by John Keats, is inspired by the beauty of Greek art to discuss themes such as mortality and timelessness. The speaker describes and address the figures he sees painted on an urn.
The poem focuses on the fact that those images on the urn will remain forever. Unlike us, they will never grow old and die. Their <u>beauty, youth, love, and song</u> will go on till the end of times.
