Stanza+5+Grecian+Urn

attic shape refers to the urn- Attica was the chief city The urn is adorned with brede (embroidery) depicting marble men and women enacting a scene in the tangle of a forest tree branches and weeds While looking at this scene, people begin to tire trying to grasp its meaning "Cold Pastoral"- urn is made of cold, unchanging marble because it frustrates him with thoughts of eternity The speaker says that even when he dies, the urn will remain thus, being immortal "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"- the urn will remain the same (truthful) and the figures on the urn will remain the same (beautiful) thus looking into, do not try to look beyond the beauty of the urn and its images, which are representations of the eternal, for no one can see into eternity. The beauty itself is enough for a human; that is the only truth that a human can fully grasp. The poem ends with an endorsement of these words, saying they make up the only axiom that any human being really needs to know.