Who Does The Speaker Of The Poem Seem To Be Referred To The Urn '?

1.Who does the speaker of the poem seem to be addressing in the first stanza? How do you know? In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker seems to be addressing the urn. We as the reader know that a urn is a vase that is covered with decorations. So, when the speaker says “Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: what leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape…” we assume that the poet is addressing the urn because he seems to be questioning the decorations on the urn and what stories they hold.

2.What is the speaker questioning in lines 8 through 10?
“What men or gods are these? What maiden loath? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?” The speaker is questioning the images he sees on the urn and is questioning the story behind each of the images. He also questions who they are and what is going on in the images he sees “What mad pursuit”. …show more content…

What are the “bold lover” and the “she” being referred to? What's situation between them is the poet describing?
In the second stanza the first image that arises is a decoration on the urn that the speaker is describing, someone who is playing an instrument (“the pipes”). Whoever is playing the instrument his melodies are unheard to the “sensual ear” and can only be heard by the “spirits ditties of no tone” (could mean: melodies can only be heard through your soul)
The “bold lover’ and the “she” are being referred as lovers stuck in time. Although the man playing the pipes can never kiss the beautiful girl, “she cannot fade...Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!” their love will last forever and she will always remain