...quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme : What leaf-fringed...of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth ? What mad pursuit ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels ? What wild ecstasy ? Heard...

...quietness I Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme; What leaf-fringed...about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempo or the dales of Arcndy ? What men or gods are these ? What maidens loath ? What mad pursuit?...

...understanding lies in the acceptance of that mystery: What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Timeless and overcoming what our senses normally fail to perceive, the urn and its depictions are puzzling....

...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?48 Though...

...know precisely what is being looked at. Consider these lines from the first stanza: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? Presumably, if one knew what was being looked at on the urn, one could ask, What deities are these?...

...quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed...of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard...

...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? (3-10)...

...Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,...of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard...

...than our rhyme : What Ieaf-fringed legend haunts ahout thy shape Of deities or mortals or of hoth, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these ? What maidens Ioth : What mad pursuit ? Wha1 struggles to escape ? What pipes and timhrels ,! What wild ecstasy r...

...Gender (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), 150. What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? The privileged aesthetic moment is a freeze frame just prior to ravishment. But how does pressing the...