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"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!"
"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.
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 ".
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.
Frances (known as Fanny) Brawne was born 9 August 1800 to Samuel and Frances at the Brawnes' farm near the hamlet of West End, close to Hampstead, England. [1] [2] She was the eldest of three surviving children; her brother Samuel was born July 1804, and her sister Margaret was born April 1809 (John and Jane, two other siblings, died in infancy). [3]
Keats, Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath by Joseph Severn. Like many of Keats's odes, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" discusses art and art's audience. He relied on depictions of natural music in earlier poems, and works such as "Ode to a Nightingale" appeal to auditory sensations while ignoring the visual.
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 ...
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 ...