Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
I can feel tension from this as Keats describes as though this woman was alive, beautiful but he knows she is not truly alive, she is just a piece of art on an urn, though it could just be a symbolizing of reality and art, it can also be seen as one for life and death as Keats talks about about how she cannot fade while he will inevitably pass away, wilting as he puts it, she will forever remain this same. This has resulted in the tension of this, both real and fake with life and death involved, about this rather paradoxical love that Keats expresses to the woman on the Urn, knowing she is not real and she will be still around even when he will be gone. One of which he is sadly, to me, admits to the reader.