Some engraved pictures, as, the musician, a bold lover and the lady love, the mysterious priest, a heifer, some village folks and some pastoral scenery sculptured upon the urn, -evoke the poet’s imagination. All these are the “silent form” of Attic age and they tease us out of thought as our thought of eternity.
The poet in an askance note begins to question what they are and what their reality is. The poet continues to ask –
What men gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Imagination may offer boon on human life, - the worldly music gratifying our external senses may become monotonous, but when we think of music-maker piping, we enter into the process of creativity. We imagine and imagine on. Thus the music derived from our imagination is sweeter than the music of our common place life. This is why :
“Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard/Are sweeter.."
The bold lover would always remain young and the lady-love would ever be charming and fair. Because they have not consumpted love. The fulfillment of love is sign of decay. So, the poet says:-
“She can not fade, though hast not thy bliss
For ever wilt thou love, she be fair. ”
This is the briefest explanation of the first three stanzas of the poem.
Subrata Ray .Mousumipara Uluberia .West Bengal India .
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