In the first stanza the speaker stands before an old Grecian urn and speaks to it. He is concerned with the picture frozen in time. It is the "still unravishe'd bride of quietness" the "foster child of silence and slow time". He also describes the urn as a historian that can tell a story. He wants to know about the pictures on the side of the urn and ask what legend it can tell and from where they come. He saw a picture of a group of men chasing a group of women and wonders what a mad pursuit? What struggle to run away?
The statement “The reader must
understand the author s position in order to use the source correctly” is true.
It would be disheartening to know that when you have presented a great work and
found out that you are not citing the authors’ work or did not mentioned him at
all.