Could he be reiterating the structure of the poem in these lines? Beauty - lust truth - god and sprituality truth and beauty - love and lust in old age in the final stanza

Piety: faithfulness, especially to an elder or to god

Clearly and obviously faithful/religious scene

Associated with either: 1. attending to livestock OR 2. being spiritual(notice pastor in the word)

You can still love when you are alive even if it is not young and lustfull.

**What is the affect of bordering a poem filled with symbols of spirituality and religion with sexuality and lust? **

Attic - Athenian Marble men - statues of gods and important people in ancient times Forest branches and the trodden weed - vases and urns played a large part of story telling in ancient times. This could suggest that the story of ones life was entirely lived in the forest.

Notes on Nymphs in Greek mythology: The Meliai (Meliae) were nymphs of the ash-trees. They were born when Gaia (Gaea, the Earth) was impregnated by the blood of the castrated Ouranos (Uranus, the Sky). They were wed by the men of the Silver Age--in the time before the first woman was created--and from them mankind was descended.

Context for sacrificing of a Heifer in Deuteronomy from

The Book of Deuteronomy explains how a heifer is to be sacrificed in atonement for innocent blood whenever a human being is found lying dead in the countryside and nobody knows how they have died (21:1-9)

Could this suggest that she who died with the urn was left to die alone in the forest? Is that the true story that the reader of this story is after?

Even the cow is preserved as beautiful in her death: **What sacrifice did the urn die for? **

From informational Christian website .-,GREEN,into%20the%20life%20of%20God.)

Green is a sign of life in nature and as such it represents growth, life and hope. Green is the colour worn most often during liturgies in Ordinary Time. It symbolises the graces that draw people into the life of God. Most of the Church's year is Ordinary Time.

**What does placing these scene during "ordinary time" suggest? **

"nor ever bid the Spring adieu?" These lines offer that the character is in a constant state of revival; does Keats call upon Spring in reference to Easter. Perhaps with this scenery he suggests that even those who died are constantly born again, eve if they are stuck being thought of differently forever.

From Oxford English Dictionary: transferred and figurative. A main branch, as of a vein or artery; a branch of a family, or of anything metaphorically referred to as a tree. Obsolete.

Here, Keats argues that there is nothing to truly be sad about, as she cannot ever really leave since she is preserved in her death.

*Does Keats begin this as a poem of lust to suggest hopeless and unrequited passion to the point of wishing death for the sake of preservation? Or does he start with that passion as a distraction before offering a sobering recount of grieving someone who has really died? *

little songs or poems

(From Oxford English Dictionary) "In Tempe" The proper name of a charming valley in Thessaly, watered by the Peneus, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa; used (already by the Roman writers) as a general name for a beautiful valley; hence for any delightful rural spot.

dales - a valley

Arcady - poetic version of Arcadia/home of hermes and Pan/rustic historic village

Have laptop out for pictures

(Oxford English Dictionary) To enhance the value of

Once again begins and ends with sexual imagery.

Question: How does beginning the first stanza with "unravish'd" and ending with "wild ecstasy" set the tone for the poem? Furthermore, how does historic imagery of peaceful isolation further or weaken this tone?

was not born to this, only temporarily exist in this state. Doubles down on themes of innocence.

begins the subtle themes of lust/sex/purity throughout the poem. note the difference between reading this as "unravished bride of quietness" vs. "bride of unravished quietness"

Meant to be read out loud, as a performance; Horace's Odes