Images can mean different things to different people, because different people experience even similar things in different ways.
For example, in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" John Keats seems to envy the people in the depictions on the Urn, "When old age shall this generation waste, thou shalt remain".
Meanwhile, nearly 2000 years later, Punk band The Menzingers sings "Last friday night I wasn't me, I was a still life trapped in eternity, I was the focal point of a focus, out of ink"
The speaker seems to LAMENT that he was previously so resistant to change, instead of desirous of it.
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