FEATURES OF AN ODE POETRY
FEATURES OF AN ODE POETRY:
- It is in the form of an address, often to some abstraction. It is not written about but written to.
- It has lyric enthusiasm and emotional intensity. It is a spontaneous overflow of the poet's emotions.
- Its theme is dignified and exalted. It has 'high seriousness'.
- Its style is equally elevated; it is also sufficiently long to allow for the full development of its dignified theme.
- The development of thought is logical and clear.
- Its metrical pattern may be regular or irregular, but it is always elaborate and often complex and intricate.
There are two important forms of the ode
1. The Pindaric Ode
2. The Horation Ode
EXAMPLES:
Few examples includes the work of John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on an Grecian Urn" and P.B.Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"
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