The Ode Flashcards
From its origins in
The ode was a ? Form
Classical antiquity
Solemn heroic elevated form
In ancient times in the Pindaric ode
Therefore the early examples of the ode are full of
Athletes were praised and statesman applauded
Flatteries exaggerations and claims for the excellence and High standing of the subject
The ode might have remained a
But the romantic movement
Suddenly these poets struggling with their?
Static and historic form
Galvanized it
New and volatile arrangements of the inner and outer world, discovered themselves in this form
In the 19th century the ode transited from its old ? And became a form that
Heroic mode
That examines and exalted lyric crisis
In this form Keats celebrates the ? In this form also Shelley wrote his powerful
Nightingale the Grecian urn and the darkening weather of autumn
Ode to the west wind
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
Convention, mode, opportunity
Spirit of the ode (its address and decorum)
Panoramic landscape of reference and celebration
In the 19th century when Shelley wrote ode to the west wind or Keats ? Two things are obvious
To autumn
The ode is no longer a ceremonial form and the Writing of the sonnet has influenced the structure of the ode
Shelley’s ode to the west wind is largely made of ? But words with a defining ? Is i?
Sonnets
Ode on the intimations of immorality
Irregular exuberant shifting from long lines to short and from epigrammatic to philosophical statements
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
Lost form
Straight faced and unswerving elevation of objects and persons
Lost faith and broken images
Casts a long shadow over the contemporary poet
