ll. 31 seq. Keats is now looking at the other side of the urn.
This
verse
strongly
recalls certain parts of the frieze of the Parthenon
(British Museum).
PAGE 116. l. 41. _Attic_, Greek.
_brede_, embroidery. Cf. _Lamia_, i. 159. Here used of carving.
l. 44. _tease us out of thought._ Make us think till thought is lost in
mystery.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ODE TO PSYCHE.
In one of his long journal-letters to his brother George, Keats writes,
at the beginning of May, 1819: 'The following poem--the last I have
written--is the first and the only one with which I have taken even
moderate pains.