ode form

Question 1

what are the two orgins of the romantic ode?

Answer 1

1) Pinadaric Ode (greek)

2) Horatian ode (roman)

Question 2

What are Pindaric odes?

Answer 2

based on choral odes from greek drama. They were written to give public praise, for example to Olymipc athletes

• comprised of three parts (Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode)
• Strophes and antistrophes would have the same metrical structure and the epode had a different metrical structure

Question 3

how did 17th 18th and 19th century english poets adapt pindaric odes?

Answer 3

these odes would have an irregular stanza structure where each stanza might be numbers of lines and include varying lines lengths to suit the mood/ atmosphere

Question 4

what are horatian odes?

Answer 4

horace used regular stanzas and regular metre in his odes.

the horatian ode was more personal (yet emotionally restrained) and meditative than the pindaric ode

Question 5

which of Keat’s odes could be described as a horatian ode

Answer 5

to autumn

Question 6

what is a romantic ode?

Answer 6

-an ode that developed out of hortian and pindaric odes. It tended to combine the irregular stanza structure of the pindaric ode with the more personal meditative tone of the Horatian, however without the emotional restraint of Horace

Question 7

features of romantic odes (3)

Answer 7

• description of a particularised out natural scene
• an extended meditation which the scene stimulates and which may be focused on a private problem or a universal solution 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