ode to psyche Flashcards
‘o goddess! hear these tuneless numbers’
religious response
hierarchy
not worthy of her
‘by sweet enforcement and remembrance dear’
euphonic
song is bad but doing it out of love
‘surely i dreamt to-day, or did i see’
in between fantasy and reality
art allows us to transcend
‘i wander’d in a forest thoughtlessly’
no purpose
carefree
‘whisp’ring roof’
sibilance
rustling
nature’s secrets - humanity helpless against
‘tyrian’
sleeping
royalty
‘they lay calm-breathing, on the bedded grass’
spondee
‘their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu’
purity
not consummated
‘aurorean love’
dawn of relationship
‘his psyche true!’
possessive pronoun
‘latest born and loveliest vision far’
best out of everything
no other stories about her
‘olympus’ faded hierarchy’
doesn’t get enough recognition
‘phoebe’
the moon
both seen as the pinnacle of beauty
psyche better
‘pale mouth’d prophet dreaming’
criticising organised religion
no one to sing about her - disrespectful
lack of worship
we need to nurture our individuality rather than feed into mass industrialisation
‘faint olympians’
even though greek mythology is fading, he still appreciates it
‘i see, and sing, by my own eyes inspir’d
we shouldn’t think that we won’t be remembered
‘thy shrine, thy oracle, thy heat’
asyndetic list
stream of consciousness
‘untrodden region of my mind’
not polluted by the industrial revolution
‘pleasant pain’
oxymoron
‘steep by steep’
vast shrine
‘zephyrs, streams, and birds and bees’
nature
ideal world
‘wide quietness’
synaesthesia
‘buds, and bells, and stars without a name’
alliteration
so amazing they haven’t been discovered
‘who breeding flowers, will never breed the same’
no limitations
make it up as you go along
