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The final lines of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” written when he was 23 years old, find the highest form of meaning in pure beauty. The urn is unchanged through the centuries and that moment of eternal beauty, frozen in time, has more significance for humanity, according to Keats, than the fleeting nature of individual happiness. The meaning of these last two lines has been much debated and defies a simple reading. Keats’ work presented all of experience as a tangle of inseparable and irreconcilable opposites. His letters reveal him wrestling with the problems of evil and suffering in the world.
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