Guetti, ''Resisting the Aesthetic''

“It is safer, and far “sweeter,” to imagine what the “flowery tale” depicted on the urn might have said…” (389).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/04/keats_could_control_himself.html

Dr, jerz can i uses this for my presentation?

Why are the power of words - a fishy situation?

The Interesting Part—What’s Missing
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/04/the_interesting_partwhats_miss.html

questioning ignorance

“Virtually no critics have thought of reading the questions Keats addresses to the urn literally—that is, not as rhetorical exclamations, but as sincere and urgent demands for information—and therefore it has not occurred to anyone that Keats is, as de Man would put it, attempting to read, rather than to imagine, the urn” (Guetti 386).

"...[if] we take the questions addressed to the urn by Keats as real questions, we begin to see that Keats doesn't know the very things about the urn that would have been of the utmost importance to the people who made it...And I would argue that what gives the urn its special status for Keats is precisely this problem: that the urn 'matters' to Keats because of his ignorance about it" (Guetti 386).

Combine these ideas--seriously though, try it!

A Rhetorical Urn
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/04/a-rhetorical-urn.html

How do we compete?

"Virtually no critics have thought of reading the questions Keats addresses to the urn literally- that is, not as rhetorical exclamations, but as sincere and urget demands for information- and therefore it has not occurred to anyone that Keats is, as de Man would put it, attempting to read, rather than to imagine, the urn. It has been noticed that the poem is composed primarily as a series of questions..." (Guetti 387)

"And I would argue that what gives the urn its special status for Keats is precisely this problem: that the urn "matters" to Keats because of his ignorance about it."(386)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/04/comments_on_bar.html

"It seems clear that we have to imagine what went on in the mind of Keats, as he wondered what the pot can have meant - we, it is understood, being those who have lost our innocence in the matter by reading the contradictory babble of the critics" (Guetti 385)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/04/resisting-the-u.html