Read the analysis of a theme from "Ode on a Grecian Urn."One theme in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is that art is an eternal and unchanging truth.Now, read the passage from Keats's poem "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles."So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rudeWasting of old Time—with a billowy main—A sun—a shadow of a magnitude.
The passage describes Grecian grandeur mixed with “the rude / Wasting of old Time,” suggesting that even great works of art are affected by time. That challenges the idea that art is eternal and unchanging, so the passage is contradicting the theme.
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