The first step a reader should take to determine a theme in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is to
<em>D) Identify an important topic in the poem.</em>
<u>"Ode on a Grecian Urn</u>" is a multi-layered poem that presents several interconnected ideas and topics; thereby, the first step to determine the <u>theme</u> should be analyzing the poem to <u>identify the important topic</u>.
Once the topic is identified, it would be useful to consider the remaining options, such as summarizing the poem to be able to state its message in a single sentence.
I think the correct answer from the choices listed above is option B. The narrator allude the to the possibility of requiring a wife who could match Adams social standards at the end of the sentence from Mark Twain's "The 1,000,000 Bank-Note". Hope this answers the question.
