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