Forever Young

The Ode to the Garden Urn is truly a fantastic and creative piece. The writers way of personifying the picture on the urn are the work of a truly talented poet. The poem makes known that because these subjects are portrayed on the urn they have become timeless. In what ways are timeless images displayed in a positive way and in what way are images like these that are made timeless negative? Is this even possible. Take for example a picture of a new family. This would seem to be an awfully good memory of the family at a nice Sunday picnic. One would think this would be a memory to last forever... Just by glancing at the picture one may begin to envy this seemingly perfect family. But, what this timeless picture does not tell you is that the 10 minutes after this photo was taken the man receives a phone call from a friend who confesses his 4 year affair with the man's wife. Not such a happy memory now. This awful memory becomes timeless, but it a horribly negative way. Does this effect anything? Does this make the memory less valid? Take the lovers in on the urn. Caught in the middle of a kiss. Forever longing each other, never to know the disappointment of a bad kiss or the hurt of a break up. They are forever in between. I think that is the only way a timeless picture can be completely positive.... when the action caught in time is perhaps in the making but has not been completed... I'd like to know what you think about this.

commented on Rachel's- as always. :)