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"Ode to Psyche" is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes , which include " Ode on a Grecian Urn " and " Ode to a Nightingale ". "Ode to Psyche" is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats's attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene.
After writing "Ode to Psyche", Keats sent the poem to his brother and explained his new ode form: "I have been endeavouring to discover a better Sonnet stanza than we have. The legitimate does not suit the language well, from the pouncing rhymes; the other appears too elegiac , and the couplet at the end of it has seldom a pleasing effect.
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
In a letter to his brother dated 19 March 1819, Keats discussed indolence as a subject. He may have written the ode as early as March, but the themes and stanza forms suggest May or June 1819; when it is known he was working on " Ode on a Grecian Urn ", " Ode on Melancholy ", " Ode to a Nightingale " and " Ode to Psyche ".
Of Keats's six major odes of 1819, "Ode to Psyche", was probably written first and "To Autumn" written last. Some time between these two, he wrote "Ode to a Nightingale". [ 3 ] It is possible that "Ode to a Nightingale" was written between 26 April and 18 May 1819, based on weather conditions and similarities between images in the poem and ...
In The Masks of Keats, Thomas McFarland suggests that Keats's beautiful words and images attempt to combine the non-beautiful subject of melancholy with the beauty inherent in the form of the ode. He too writes that the images of the bursting grape and the "globèd peonies" show an intention by the poet to bring the subject of sexuality into ...
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