Ode on a grecian urn shmoop

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    Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.

    Lines 41-43

    O Attic shape!

    Fair attitude! with brede
    Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
    With forest branches and the trodden weed;

    • Compared to the steamy stanza III, stanza IV was a mellow, low-key affair.

      Ode on a grecian urn shmoop poem

      But in the last stanza the speaker suddenly gets excited again.

    • It’s like someone stuck a shot of adrenaline in his arm. He starts yelling about the beautiful appearance of the urn, as if noticing it for the first time.
    • He has raptures over its "Attic shape," which just means it has a distinctively Greek appearance, and its "fair attitude," which means a graceful posture.

      (A "brede" is a braid, like a braid of hair.)

    • The lovers are "braided" together in the chiseled marble, which is a wild image. It makes the carving sound complicated and ornate.
    • Indeed, the speaker calls the depiction "overwrought," or too complicated.
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