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A five page paper comparing three odes by John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The paper defines the ode, then looks at Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a Nightingale”, and Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind,” discussing form, structure, and imagery. One additional source.
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stanza structure, a marked formality and stateliness in tone and style (which makes it ceremonious) and lofty sentiments and thoughts. In short, an ode is rather a grand poem, a
full-dress poem" (Cuddon, 650). Because of this, one would expect odes to be very popular in the eighteenth century when poetry was very formal, and so they were. But surprisingly,
we find that the ode was a favorite form of a number of Romantics of the nineteenth century, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley among them. Both Keats and Shelley
found in the formalism of the ode form a springing-off point for their Romantic thoughts. Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a long poem extolling the perfection of
art as opposed to real life, showing that art is timeless as nature can never be because living things are caught up in a cycle of change and death. To
present this argument he compares the urn to an unravished bride, which belongs to him but yet he can never possess. He establishes a second metaphor as well, this time
comparing the urn to a sylvan historian, in that it can record in its workmanship the details of a culture long extinct. In this way Keats shows that art exists
outside of time, unlike human beings who cannot escape it. Keats ode is written in iambic pentameter, like a sonnet. However, it is not a sonnet because it does not
have fourteen lines, and it does not have the setup-argument-conclusion format that a sonnet does; it couldnt have, because it does not begin and end in one self-contained stanza, but
continues its argument from one stanza to the next. However, this particular ode borrows the formality of iambic pentameter and sets it in a stanzaic pattern of ten lines.
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