read the analysis of a theme from "ode on a grecian urn." one theme in "ode on a grecian urn" is that art is an eternal and unch
anging truth. now, read the passage from keats's poem "on seeing the elgin marbles." so do these wonders a most dizzy pain, that mingles grecian grandeur with the rude wasting of old time—with a billowy main— a sun—a shadow of a magnitude. the theme of the passage relates to the theme from "ode on a grecian urn" by supporting it. contradicting it. summarizing it. illustrating it.
<em>Ode on a Grecian Urn</em> describes art as an eternal truth. However, Keats's <em>On Seeing the Elgin Marbles</em> analyzes different view. Marbles symbolize human creativity. Simultaneously, it symbolizes both mortality and immortality. Therefore, the latter contradicts the former one.
Based on the passage from Keats's poem "On seeing the Elgin Marbles", the theme of the passage as it relates to the theme from "Ode on a Grecian Run", this passage is contradicting it. The correct answer would be the second option.
