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unravished bride

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unravished bride
her portrait fixed in clay, she cannot fade but will be forever fair. [Br. Poetry: Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”]


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These are not unravished brides, and they seem happy with that (one of them is, in fact, Kurland's mother).
As Miller points out, by 1820 Keats would address that "still unravished bride of quietness" as the "foster-child of silence and slow time," quite certain that no amount of antiquarian activity would reveal the original subject of his Grecian Urn.
Childs herself remains timeless, centered, as ever the unravished bride of quietness.
 
 
 
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