Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at urn.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Urn.

Examples

  • The "Urn" is an excellent vehicle for introducing such things and for forcing students to pause, in their headlong gallop toward subjective response or ideological pronouncement, to ponder the grammatical and semantic relations between pronouns and antecedents in the English language.

    Ode on a Grecian Urn 2003

  • In advanced classes, the "Urn" is subjected to a more deconstructive and antithetical mode of reading that foregrounds the problematic nature of Romantic notions of symbol and embodiment.

    Ode on a Grecian Urn 2003

  • The "Urn" is a particularly good text for these issues because, like all of Keats's odes, but especially the "Ode to Psyche" and the "Ode to a Nightingale," it is so self-conscious about its own interpretive practice.

    Hermeneutics for Sophomores 2003

  • As I am not sure of your meaning, whither an Urn is to contain, engraved on its interior surface, such lines as may be approved; or, whither merely to be a repository of such MS pieces in honour of the Bard, I much doubt whither what I send will meet your ideas on this most interesting subject.

    Letter 68 2009

  • The "Well-Wrought Urn" is of course the title of Cleanth Brooks's "Studies in the Structure of Poetry," as the book's subtitle has it.

    March 2010 2010

  • The "Well-Wrought Urn" is of course the title of Cleanth Brooks's "Studies in the Structure of Poetry," as the book's subtitle has it.

    Only Change and No Urns? 2010

  • The "Well-Wrought Urn" is of course the title of Cleanth Brooks's "Studies in the Structure of Poetry," as the book's subtitle has it.

    Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

  • The Hyrax, recently self-proclaimed ruler of Urn, is completely out of control, trying to impose totally unrealistic laws that result in the tea crop workers rebelling.

    Review | God Emperor of Didcot by Toby Frost Mark 2008

  • If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

    This Made Me Giggle! ____Maggie 2007

  • If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

    Archive 2007-05-01 ____Maggie 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.