Stanza+1+Grecian+Urn

"unravished bride of quietness" - the urn is timeless; no matter how old the urn gets, it will still be virginal. "foster child of silence and slow time"- the urn has been adopted by silence and slow time which has given the urn eternal speechlessness and stillness "Sylvan historian"- a story is silently being told from the pictures on the urn; paradox (urn silently tells a story); Sylvan- relating to the words or forests "leaf-fringed legend"- the nature images on the urn tell a better story than the speaker can do with words or a pen "Tempe or the dales of Arcady"- setting of the poem; Tempe- a valley in Thessaly Greece; Arcady- Arcadia, a region in Peloponnesus; both locations are where the natices live carefree lives like those painted on the urn The speaker asks if the people on the urn are immoral because unlike him, they will live forever and questions their activity