This week we have been considering the influence of ancient Greece on modern culture and analysing Tim Turnbull's answer to Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'. This has been a particularly enjoyable week for me, as you know, as the message in Keats' poem is one of my absolute favourites. We listened to Keats' poem and spoke about the idea of trying to learn about a society through 'snapshot' images. We shared our thoughts on the questions Keats' raises: Is it better to be captured forever in one perfect moment, or to live life with all its highs and lows? Can beauty itself be a truth? What is the purpose of art? You can access 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' here, to remind yourself of the links between the two poems.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44477
Here are the annotations I made on my copy of the poem as a result of our discussion:
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