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What is an ode?

What is an ode?. Robert Beum and Karl Shapiro’s Prosody Handbook determines that … “it is difficult to say what an ode is. One is tempted to describe it as a poem of some length which does not follow any of the other conventional forms.”. Greek Roots. Dramatic Choral

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What is an ode?

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  1. What is an ode? Robert Beum and Karl Shapiro’s Prosody Handbook determines that … “it is difficult to say what an ode is. One is tempted to describe it as a poem of some length which does not follow any of the other conventional forms.”

  2. Greek Roots • Dramatic • Choral • Music and movement

  3. Common Characteristics • Lyric • Serious topic • Elevated style • Stanza structure

  4. Two Kinds • Pindaric (regular) • Horatian • Irregular (Cowley)

  5. Pindaric • Greek poet, Pindar • Public address • Three-strophe division • Strophe • Antistrophe • Epode

  6. Horatian • Popular w/ romantics • Reflective • Homostrophic  single type of stanza

  7. Apostrophe • Speech addressing … • An absent person • A personified object or idea • Varies in length • Possible origins in prayer • Romantic aesthetics • Sympathy • Identification

  8. Synaesthesia • Synthesis of senses • One sense experience described in terms of another Soft incense (Keats 42) The experience of smell in terms of touch.

  9. logical structure There are usually three elements: • the description of a particularized outer natural scene; • an extended meditation, which the scene stimulates, and which may be focused on a private problem or a universal situation or both; • the occurrence of an insight or vision, a resolution or decision, which signals a return to the scene originally described, but with a new perspective created by the intervening meditation.

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