The Portrayal of Eternal Innocence and the Sufficiency of Beauty in John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Imagine the following: a bride dressed in white on her wedding day, savage men chasing after women, the lingering subject of love, or a peaceful, uncorrupted town. What do these topics have in common? Through the use of these topics, John Keats portrays the theme of eternal innocence and the sufficiency of beauty throughout his poem, "Ode …showed first 75 words of 947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 947 total…years later), the urn and its eternal emanations of beauty will survive. So, even though the last stanza is of a different structure (does not have the urn representing a scene), it still represents innocence and beauty especially within the famous line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty". And therefore, as demonstrated throughout the entire poem by the use of innocent, unfulfilled images painted on the urn, Keats demonstrates the theme of innocence and eternal beauty.