Read the excerpt. Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: Why do you think the speaker describes the urn as a historian in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats? The urn will become historic. The urn can tell stories from times past. The urn is immovable, like events from the past.

The speaker describes the urn as a historian in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats because he describes that the urn can tell stories from times past. This excerpt is taken from the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" written by John Keats in 1819 about an art side of an urn. He believes that the urn can tell stories from the depicted figure on the side of the urn.