What leaf-fringd legend haunts about thy shape Essays - Literature

What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; In this stanza, John keats uses imagery to stimulate audience's imagination of depiction. Keats vividly paints the depictions on the urn with several questions to the urn. He points out the main character as a "legend", however, he couldn't figure the surroundings of the legend but assumes the legend is located "in Tempe or the dales of Arcady". The location establishes peaceful and tranquil atmosphere as both locations are based on rural areas. Furthermore, he embellishes the sound of the depiction, especially the legend, with its "sweeter" "unheard" "melodies". The "unheard" "melodies" on the depiction suggests the fulfillment and the contentment of imagination and anticipation. A melody or music played in our mind is played perfectly. Therefore, Keats believed that imagining something is more contented than the reality. He thinks that expectation sometimes disappoints the real result.