WHAT IS AN ODE??

WHAT IS AN ODE?

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• Ode means ‘to sing or chant’ in Greek
• Invented by Greek poet Pindar
• It is a long lyric poem composed that is usually serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.

CHARACTERISTICS

• Composed to praise something: object, person, place or event.
• Often includes exaggeration
• It is like a form of an address used to portray death or to celebrate important public occasions

PRIMARY ELEMENTS

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• Usually having a three part structure

Strophe( a pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem)

Antistrophe (the second division in the triadic structure of pindaric verse

Epode (the third version of the triad of a pindaric ode , having a different or contrasting form

THREE TYPES OF ODES

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• Pindaric
• Horatian
• Irregular

• Pindaric: written in passionate praise of Ancient Greek, heroes,political and military leaders
• Horatian : based on the works of horace , deeply personal more meditative
• Irregular : does not make use of the patterns set out in other two

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EXAMPLES

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• 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' by John Keats.
• 'Ode to the West Wind' by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
• 'The Lady to Her Guitar' by Emily Brontë
• 'Ode to Thread' by Pablo Neruda.
• 'Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn' by Tim Turnbull.
• 'Dejection: An Ode' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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John keat’s ode on a Grecian Urn is a......

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• An ode
• An elegy
• A sonnet
• None of the above

CORRECT

• An ode