maidens loathe? What mad pursuit? What struggles to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?" (Lines 8-10). He makes the statement that what is physically on the urn is a series of conceptual things, such as 'ecstasy', 'escape' and 'pursuit'.
The second stanza opens with yet another junction of the physical and the abstract. (Lines 11 and 12), "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter", is a clever example of the above statement. The 'unheard melodies' is an ab
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