f the poem by questioning the nature of truth represented by the urn. Stillenger accurately states in “The Hoodwinking of Madeline”, the question of the urn, “Who said what to whom at the end of ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn?” (Stillinger 167-173). Truth is related to whom we identify as the speaking subject. Someone or something is addressing the reader directly. Someone is defined as “a friend of man”. Keats sees the “happy lover” as well as the “object of desire”, the three boughs and the piper. The urn contains a scene ambiguous in meaning. He presents questions within the first through forth stanzas. He demands origins, names and meaning in regards to specified events. The unanswered questions are left for the reader to answer. Jason Muro says, the ode inscribes a sine wave, with five distinct points along its length. First, the poet is steeped in despair brought about b the world’s unrelenting flex. Second, upon entering the urn, he is filled with hope he has found the antidote for despair. Third, he finds his hope unfounded, the antidote was a placebo. Fourth, he closely examined the urn, he embodies a terror more intense than the despair from which he sought relief. The Placebo is in fact poison. Last, he embraces transient conditions of the world as an antidote to the terrors of the urn. The point of origin of Keats initial problem from which he wants to ascene becomes his point of salvation he want to climb by the end of the poem. Keats became apart of his poetry by becoming all of its characters in one aspect or another. He is the “unheard melody that is never really heard or appreciated in its lifetime”. He is the tree that will never go bare, because he died during the spring season of the year. He is the bold lover that will never kiss yet will forever love. Line after line Keats is the representative of the objec...
