Name: Nikunj Bhatti

Roll no.:19

M.A. Semester: 2

Enrolment No.: 14101005

Year: 2014-15

Paper no.: 5 (Romantic literature)

Submitted to: Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Topic: Myths in Keats’ Odes

His Odes

Ode to Nightingale

Ode to Grecian Urn

Ode to Psyche

Ode to Autumn

John Keats

WhatIs ?

A myth is a story that may or may not be true.

Myths are generally very old.

All culture have myths.

Myth means a false belief.

“Myth convert history in to the nature”

Myth of Greek

Ode to a Nightingale

‘Dryad’ in Greek mythology it means

is a female spirit attached to a tree.

Free from body or society.

The nightingale is compared to a

wood-nymph.

Nightingale in England sing in the

woods.

For example, Line: 7

“That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees”

Myth of Dryad

Myth of Hippocrene

This poem also inspired by a Greek

form.

According to Greek myth it means

‘Hippocrene’ was the name of a spring

that the winged horse Pegasus created

by stamping its hoof into the ground.

For example, Line:16

“Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,”

Myth of Bacchus

• ‘Bacchus ’ is the Greek God of

wine and also drunkenness.

• The speaker also claims that his

escape into the nightingale’s world

will not be due to drunkenness.

• He was the last god to join the twelve

Olympians.

For example, Line: 32

“Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,”

In classical methodology Psyche was a beautiful

maiden, of whom the goddess Venus was

extremely jealous.

Venus sent her son to humalitiate the girl.

But Cupid fall in love with psyche and took her

away to a secrete valley where he visited her each

night.

Ode to Psyche

Myth of Psyche

• The speaker opens the

poem with an address to

the goddess Psyche,

Urging her to hear his

words and asking that

she forgive him for

singing to her own

secrets. The speaker says

he knew the winged boy

but asks who the girl was.

Myth of Olympians

• Greek Gods.

• The Olympian are a group of

12 Greek Gods.

• Psyche describing her as the

youngest and most beautiful of

all the Olympians gods and

goddesses.

• She has no temple no altars, no

choir tossing for her and so no.

Myths of Tempe & Arcady

• ‘Tempe’ & ‘Arcady’ both are

places name.

• Both are place’s of great beauty

in classical mythology.

• Tempe is a valley in Thessaly ,

Grees between mount Olympus

and Mount Ossa that is favored

by Apollo , the god of poetry and

music.

• Arcady is Arcadia.