Download - Theme of odes- John Keats
Topic:- Theme of odes
Submitted to: Heenaba Zala
Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.
John Keats was born on 31 October1795 to Thomas and FrancesJennings Keats in Central London
He was a second generationRomantic poet.
His first surviving poem ’AnImitation of Spenser’ comes in1814, when Keats was nineteen.
Other works considered to be amongKeats's greatest are the odespublished in 1820.
•The word “ode” is of Greekorigin, meaning “sung”.• An ode is a poem of a noblefeeling and expression of dignityto someone/ something loved.
• It may be regular or irregular onits verse form, depending uponthe emotional needs of its subject.
In 1819, John Keats composed six odes in a short period
of time that have become some of his most famous
poems.
These odes represent Keats's attempt to create a new
type of short lyrical poem, which influenced later
generations.
Keats's ode’s work compare to Gujarati Literature Poet
& Poetry like:
Kalapi’s Poet Agiya – Nightingale
Ode to Grecian urn.
Ode to Autumn.
Ode to Nightingale.
Ode to Psyche.
An urn was a kind of vase generally made by marble or of brass. Often different kinds scene and situation were carved on the outer surface of urn. Keats conveys his ideas about various scenes depicted on the urn.
According to Charles Patterson :
“ode to Grecian urn gives as much important to passion as to the idea of performance.”
‘Beauty is truth, truth is beauty’
REALITY
IDEAL ART
IMAGINATION
URN
Past
Present
Future
Ribirth
RipenessDeath
Autumn – Female Goddess
Temporality, morality and
change
Autumn – Old age or death
In the first stanza : the poet describes the fruit of autumn ,the fruit coming to
maturity in readiness for harvesting .
In second stanza: Autumn is
personified as a woman present at the various operations of
the harvest.
In the last stanza: The End of the year is associated with
sunset, the song of spring are over night is falling , but
there is no felling of sadness because autumn gas its own
song.
If you’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird, you know why “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”—they do nothing but sing, so they do not harm humans in any way. They do not destroy property, they eat pesky insects, and their singing is beautiful.
The bird’s Anglo-Saxon name, “nihtingale,” means “night songstress.”
Beauty of nature or
Human life.
Tragedy
Nightingale as symbol
Mortal
Immortal
Myth
Religion
Love
Ode to Nightingale
Ode to Autumn
Ode to Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
Beauty of nature and Human life
Beauty of Season Beauty of Urn
Beauty of Psyche
TragedyHuman life
Beauty
BirthRipeness
Death
PastPresentFeature
MythReligion
Love