The Ode

Question 1

From its origins in

The ode was a ? Form

Answer 1

Classical antiquity

Solemn heroic elevated form

Question 2

In ancient times in the Pindaric ode

Therefore the early examples of the ode are full of

Answer 2

Athletes were praised and statesman applauded

Flatteries exaggerations and claims for the excellence and High standing of the subject

Question 3

The ode might have remained a
But the romantic movement
Suddenly these poets struggling with their?

Answer 3

Static and historic form
Galvanized it
New and volatile arrangements of the inner and outer world, discovered themselves in this form

Question 4

In the 19th century the ode transited from its old ? And became a form that

Answer 4

Heroic mode

That examines and exalted lyric crisis

Question 5

In this form Keats celebrates the ? In this form also Shelley wrote his powerful

Answer 5

Nightingale the Grecian urn and the darkening weather of autumn

Ode to the west wind

Question 6

But the ode like pastoral and elegy was part ? Part ? And all
Modern poets have taken the ? And widened it to include a much more

Answer 6

Convention, mode, opportunity
Spirit of the ode (its address and decorum)
Panoramic landscape of reference and celebration

Question 7

In the 19th century when Shelley wrote ode to the west wind or Keats ? Two things are obvious

Answer 7

To autumn

The ode is no longer a ceremonial form and the Writing of the sonnet has influenced the structure of the ode

Question 8

Shelley’s ode to the west wind is largely made of ? But words with a defining ? Is i?

Answer 8

Sonnets
Ode on the intimations of immorality
Irregular exuberant shifting from long lines to short and from epigrammatic to philosophical statements

Question 9

For poets in this century the ode was almost a ?
It’s ? No longer seems possible in an age of
But as in ROBERT pinskys dark and witty meditation on its power the ode still

Answer 9

Lost form
Straight faced and unswerving elevation of objects and persons
Lost faith and broken images
Casts a long shadow over the contemporary poet