"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter. " From John Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn.
The quotation is from Ode on a Grecian Urnby John Keats.Paraphrase: The imagination is richer than external reality.Heard melodies are sweetbut those unheard are sweeter therefore ye soft pipesplay on not to the sensual earbut more endear'd pipe to the spirits ditties of no tone.
Sounds like an unheard oxymoron to me. [Heard sounds are sweet but those unheard are sweeter...]
According to Keats, "Heard sounds are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter". Ode on a Grecian Urn.
According to Keats, "Heard sounds are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter". Ode on a Grecian Urn.
The imagination is richer than external reality.Thought undermines action.Separation doesn't break our love, it increases it.the imagination is richer than external reality.
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No, the word 'sweeter' is the comparative form for the adjective sweet: sweet, sweeter, sweetest To 'sweeten' is a verb: sweeten, sweetens, sweetening, sweetened. Example: I sweeten my tea with honey.
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This means that sometimes imagination is better than the experience of the physical senses. Somewhat similar to Wordworth's "they flash upon the inward eye". Nature is best perceived inwardly, poetry is "a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." It is the tension set up between the experience of the senses and the experience of the imagination. For Keats, the experience of the inward ear is superior to what one hears by the registration of sound waves upon the physical mechanism of the human ear.
Xylitol is said to be as sweet as sucrose, which is table sugar. I personally find it to be sweeter than that.
Sweet Mustard is sweeter than Plain Mustard.