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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.
"Ode to Psyche" is a 67-line poem written in stanzas of varying length, which took its form from modification Keats made to the sonnet structure. [24] The ode is written to a Grecian mythological character, displaying a great influence of Classical culture as the poet begins his discourse with "O GODDESS!"
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.
Charles Cowden Clarke and John Keats both had a scrappy awareness of Pope’s translation [1] and the most famous passages of Homer. [1] Chapman's vigorous and earthy paraphrase (1616) was put before Keats by Clarke, a friend from his days as a pupil at a boarding school in Enfield Town [2] who was integral in Keats’s poetic education. [1]
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 ".
"Negative capability" is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by John Keats in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and literary theorists to describe the ability to ...
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 ...
Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats (1818) Sweet, Sweet is the Greeting of Eyes (1818) Meg Merrilies (1818) Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country (1818) At Fingal's Cave (1818) The Gadfly (1818) Ben Nevis: A Dialogue (1818) Spenserian Stanza (In after-time, a sage of mickle lore...) (1818) A Prophecy (To George Keats in ...