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An ode (from Ancient Greek: ᾠδή, romanized: ōidḗ) is a type of lyric poetry, with its origins in Ancient Greece. Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.
The poem's reliance on the process of sleeping is common to Keats's poems, and "Ode to a Nightingale" shares many of the same themes as Keats' Sleep and Poetry and Eve of St. Agnes. This further separates the image of the nightingale's song from its closest comparative image, the urn as represented in "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
The 6th ode (1.6), in which he claims that the Muse forbids him from singing the praises of Caesar (Octavian), contrasts with the 6th from the end (3.25), in which he declares that Bacchus has inspired him to sing Caesar's praises. The 10th poem (1.10) is a hymn to Mercury, and the 10th from the end (3.21) is a hymn to a wine jar.
Canzone: a lyric poem originating in medieval Italy and France and usually consisting of hendecasyllabic lines with end-rhyme. Epithalamium; Madrigal: a song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers. Ode: a formal lyric poem that addresses, and typically celebrates, a person, place, thing, or idea. Horatian Ode
The ghazal [a] is a form of amatory poem or ode, [1] originating in Arabic poetry [2] that often deals with topics of spiritual and romantic love. It may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss, or separation from the beloved, and the beauty of love in spite of that pain.
The poem argued that a poet should not be excessive or irresponsible in behaviour and contains a sense of assurance that is not found within the original four stanzas. Instead, there is a search for such a feeling but the poem ends without certainty, which relates the ode to Coleridge's poem Dejection: An Ode. [36]
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
A strophe (/ ˈ s t r oʊ f iː /) is a poetic term originally referring to the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode.The term has been extended to also mean a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line length.