Poems

SECTION 3
ODES

An Ode in poetry is a lyric peom, typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. “Ode” comes from the Greek aeidein, meaning to sing or chant so it is normally meant to be sang, however in Romanticism this did not happen.

• Ode to Psyche “O Goddess! Hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear”
• Ode to a Nightingale “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains”
• Ode on Grecian Urn“Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time”
• Ode on Indolence “One morn before me were three figures seen”
• Ode on Melancholy “No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist”

Themes: Beauty, death (suffer), time (effects), mortality.

Beauty: Ode on a Grecian Urn
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on”

Death: On death 

“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, / And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?”

Time: —

Mortality: Ode to a Nightingale

SYNEASTHETIC IMAGES

Synaesthetic Images are combination of images were different senses either touch, smell, sight, hearing or taste and are used at the same time. The functions they have in the poems are those of not only appealing to one sense but many, when normally this doesn’t happen, thus inducing dissimilar happenings.
Example: To her, than noise of trees or hidden rill

POETIC BALLADA Ballad is normally a song/poem that tends to have a romantic character with a recurrent melody, hence it has short stanzas and usually adapted for singing. They are poems that tell a story. They are considered to be a form of narrative poetry and often used in songs as they have a very musical quality to them.

READING LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI done with Dana Spinadel