...statue of him has a curious power; it could be Keats' 'foster-child of silence and slow time /. . . Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave / Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare'12 - though it is doubtful whether Bach had ever heard of Keats. Before the Germans arrived in...

...pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels?28 What wild ecstasy?29 10 2 Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual30 ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: 16 Wiliam Empson, The Structure...

...mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? II Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can diose trees be bare; Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet,...

...Keats exalts the scene portrayed on the urn because those portrayed will never grow old or perish: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave...bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,... She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair... When old...

...However, it is "Nueve" that recalls the second half of the Ode's second stanza. That section begins: "Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave / Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare" (The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 607). 30. For a reading of "1nvitatorio" see Wilcox, Women,...

...sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies ..." ZOEY "Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare." DON "For ever wilt thou love — " ZOEY " — and she be fair." John Keats. Hello. MIKE Lefty, this...

...mad pursuit? what struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? what wild ecstasy? II Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal -yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love,...

...Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973). Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave...never, never canst thou kiss. Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love,...

...disconcerting, as we can see in the extended oxymoron at the beginning of the second stanza : Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore,...more endear'd. Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. (11-14) These lines, I suspect, tease the reader as much as the urn teases the poet. Their exquisite...

...associations. It also reminds us of John Keats 's poetic lines in "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter; therefore,...more endear'd, / Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone."2' Zhuangzi went a step further in turning Lao Zi's xisheng (rarefied note) into an idea of wusheng...