ODES AND THEIR CHAHRACTERISTICS ODES TYPE OF LITERARY

ODES AND THEIR CHAHRACTERISTICS

ODES • TYPE OF LITERARY DEVICE • MAY EXIST IN FORMS OF SONNETS OR ELEGY • DERIVED FROM GREEK WORD • TONE IS FORMAL

CHARACTERISTICS OF ODES • THE AUTHOR ADRESSESS A PERSON OR A THING • ITS TONE IS FORMAL AND SERIOUS • EVERY ODE IS COMPOSED IN AN EXCEEDINGLY GRAND STYLE • ITS THEME IS HIGHLY ELEVATED • UNIFORM METRICAL SCHEME IS ANOTHER SALIENT FEATURE OF ODE

PINDER ODE • NAMED AFTER A GREEK ANCIENT POET “PINDER” • IT CONTAINS THREE TRIADS, STROPHE , ANTISTROPHE AND FINAL STANZA AS EPODE • IT HAS IRREGULAR RHYME

HORATIAN ODE • NAMED AFTER LATIN POET “HORACE” • IT IS INFORMAL, MEDIDATIVE AND INTIMATE • IT IS DEVOID OF ANY STRICT RULES

IRREGULAR ODE • WITHOUT ANY FORMAL RHYME SCHEME AND STRUCTURE • POET HAS GREAT FREEDOM AND FLEXIBILITY TO TRY ANY TYPES OF CONCEPTS

EXAMPLE ODF ODES IN LITERATURE • ODE ON INTIMATIONS OF IMMORALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH • ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD BY ALLEN TATE • ODE TO THE WEST WIND BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

JOHN KEATS (1795 - 1821) • HE WAS BORN IN LONDON ON OCTOBER 31, 1795 • IN 1815 HE BAGAN STUDYING MEDICINE BUT SOON GAVE UP • IN HIS TRAGICALLY BRIEF CAREER, CUT SHORT AT AGE 25 BY TUBORCULOSIS, KEATS CONSTANTLY EXPERMIMENTED, OFTEN WITH DAZZLING SUCCESS AND ALWAYS WITH STEADY PROGRESS OVER PREVIOUS EFFORTS • HE DIED IN ROME ON FEBRUARY 23, 1821

WRITING STYLE OF JOHN KEATS • KEATS’S DICTION IS HIGHLY CONOTATIVE • CHARACTERIZED BY SENUAL IMAGERY • CONTAINS MANY POETIC DEVICES SUCH AS ALLETRATION, PERSONIFICATION, ASSONANCE, METAPHORS AND CONSONANTS

ODE TO AUTUMN BY JOHN KEATS • HAS A RELATIVELY INTRICATE RHYME SCHEME “od abab cdedccee” • POET SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO A PERSONIFIED AUTUMN, A TECHNIQUE CALLED “ APOSTROPHY” • LINES ARE BURSTING WITH LIFE AND MOMENT AND RIPENING PROCESS • KEATS EMPHASISES ON EXISTANCE OF JOY AND SORROW TOGETHER

ODE ON A GRECIAN URN • KEATS HAS CREATED A GREEK URN IN HIS MIND AND HAS DECORATED IT WITH THREE SCENES • FIRST ONE IS FULL OF FRENZIAD ACTIONS AND THE ACTORS ARE MEN, OR GODS AND MAIDENS • THE SECOND SCENE IS DEVELOPED IN STANZA II AND III • THE THIRD SCENE IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE ON THEIR WAY TO PRFORM A SACRIFICE TO SOME GOD

ODE TO NIGHTINGALE • IT IS ABOUT HARD LIFE EXPERIENCES OF POET • IT IS A JOURNEY FROM REAL WORLD TO THE WORLD OF IMAGINATION • HE FINDS IMAGINATIVE WORLD MORW PEACEFUL AND HARMONIOUS THAN REAL WORLD

ODE TO PSYCHE • PSYCHE WAS NOT A GODESS OF PRIMITIVE GREEK MYTH BUT WAS A CREATION OF APULEIUS IN SECOND CENTURY A. D. • ODE BEGINS BY DIRECTLY ADDRESSING PSYCHE • KEATS IS INSPIRED DEAR REMEMBRANCE OF HIS VISION OF CUPID AND PSYCHE