An ode? ... In stanza two the lines of "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;" ([Ode] 2.11-12) illustrates how the narrator has since come back to his original idea that the urn does in fact depict a story. ... It is obvious to say that the narrator heavily plays out the theme of death in this fourth stanza. ... Desire too has limitations as it can only be played out to a certain point where the rest must remain unknown and one must fill in the empty gaps for oneself. ... ([Ode] 3.25). ...

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The townspeople are represented by the chorus in Sophocles's plays and during this particular moment in the play, they are simply talking out loud amongst themselves. This choral ode serves to show how the townspeople feel towards the gods, the plague, and the accusations made against Oedipus. ... As the choral ode progresses, it is seen that the people still have faith in their honored king, despite what the prophet has said. ... The use of rhetorical questions also sets the tone for the first half of the ode to be empowered with rage towards the gods. ... Language also plays another rol...

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The Death of the Human Spirit in "Harlem" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Although Langston Hughes's "Harlem" and John Keats" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" were written about 130 years apart and they differ in their structure, they seem to share a similar underlying theme. ... The poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" leaves the reader with the impression of a spiritual death. ... As for the questions in Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn", it seems as though the poet is asking the questions not to the reader, but to himself. ... An angry tone in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" would only make this poem more confusin...

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a romantic ode, a dignified but highly lyrical (emotional) poem in which the author speaks to a person or thing absent or present. In this famous ode, Keats addresses the urn and the images on it. The romantic ode was at the pinnacle of its popularity in the nineteenth century. ... The romantic ode evolved from the ancient Greek ode, written in a serious tone to celebrate an event or to praise an individual. ... Keats then notes that the young man playing the pipe beneath trees must always remain an etched figure on the urn. ...

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Critics argue both sides of the various paradoxical implications of Keats's masterpiece, Ode to a Nightingale, with the same result at nearly every end. ... This Ode examines the question having to do with the inherent union of life and death, pain and pleasure, actual and ideal from the perspective of a narrator wishing to live immortally or die easefully. ... The music of life, music of death, and the music of immortality are all part of the whole of the play, the preference for one over the other changes, sometimes slowly other times more suddenly, throughout the duration of the narr...

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In the sonnet "Ode on Intimations of Immorality," romantic poet William Wordsworth uses attitude and tone along with symbols and images, to trace the transformation he experienced in the maturing process. ... The ode begins with a reminiscent tone insisting something is lost. ... Wordsworth plays on the romantic notion that the child, in his innocence, perceives what is good in life. ...

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" In the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," lie several forms of figurative language by Keats that reveals his joyful tone in expressing innocence of what the events and individuals on the urn seem and appear. ... In the second stanza the poet speaks of the sweet melodies being played by the happy musician. The poet addresses this individual by stating, "therefore, ye soft pipes, play on." Keats is speaking to the musician on the urn who plays beautiful music. ... Keats implements that one who looks at the youth playing pipes should get pleasure in it every time he loo...

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Shelley's "Ode To the West Wind": Analysis In "Ode to the West Wind," Percy Bysshe Shelley tries to gain transcendence, for he shows that his thoughts, like the "winged seeds" (7) are trapped. ... However it is particularly apparent in 'Ode to the West Wind' where the wind is the source of his creativity. ... The word inspiration has several connotations that Shelley uses in this 'Ode'. ... They are all closely related in 'Ode to a West Wind'. ... In 'Ode to the West Wind' it is quite apparent. ...

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Years of Latin American oppression by power-greedy and money-hungry imperialist countries prompted the poet Pablo Neruda to write "Ode to the Americas."" ... The first stanza of the ode revels Latin America's once peaceful and beautiful past. ... The poem shifts again in line 53 with the repetition of the impassioned phrase that began the ode: "Oh, pure Americas ."" ... Diction plays a particularly important role in the final section; words such as "victory,""(line 87) "garlanded,""(line 86) "radiant light,""(line 91) and "flutter-(line 93) convey the speaker's positivism. ... T...

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One of his most read ode's, is "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Keats does three things in this ode to attempt to convey his thoughts: he uses a series of paradoxes in the poem to contrast the differences between the mortal life portrayed in the art on the urn and the frozen permanence of the urn itself, he makes use of a narrator who speaks to the urn and asks questions of both the urn and of the reader to show the mystery of the urn's art, and he also makes use positive and negative wording of the language in this poem to show his underlying feelings on the subject of the poem. ... In s...

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" written by John Keats demonstrates how art expresses the ultimate beauty of the urn. ... A fair youth plays a never-ending song under a tree that will never be bare because it will always be springtime. ... In "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Keats illustrates the stories and images throughout the poem by using different language and devices. ...

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When analyzing the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," I wondered what was trying to be said about the urn. ... An ode is a long lyrical poem that is formal and serious. ... He writes, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on" (11-12). ...

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Its Historical Symbolism" In the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" the urn is symbolic of history itself. ... This is emphasized in the lines, Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: (11-14) One of the tales told most often in history is the story of love. ...

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The Death of the Human Spirit in "Harlem" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Although Langston Hughes's "Harlem" and John Keats" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" were written about 130 years apart and they differ in their structure, they seem to share a similar underlying theme. ... The poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" leaves the reader with the impression of a spiritual death. ... As for the questions in Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn", it seems as though the poet is asking the questions not to the reader, but to himself. ... An angry tone in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" would only make this poem more confusin...

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The play was produced in 406 B.C, and was written in the fifth century B.C. ... He produced 123 plays, but only seven survive today. ... The structure includes a prologue, parodos, dialogue, choral odes, and exodos. ... The structure of play starts with prologue or opening scene, the paradox or first of the chorus's lyric songs or choral odes, a regular alternation of scenes in dialogue and choral odes and the exodus or concluding scene. ... These parts include the prologue, the parodos, dialogue, choral odes, and exodus. ...

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John Keats" poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" describes his thoughts of a shapely Grecian urn painted with images of people, nature and other Greek aspects. ... The lines "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;" show that Keats would rather look at the stories encompassed by the urn than listen to the music playing at the moment. ... "Ode on a Grecian Urn" captures many aspects that relate to Keats" own life and the romantic era. ...

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Ode on a Grecian Urn When Keats started writing, in the early 19th century, ancient art was in fashion and Greek images were very popular. ... Both the Romantics and Victorians addressed the idea of preserving the perfect moment and Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is one such perfect moment captured in art. ... Keats plays with the idea that this is a sort of heaven, that this moment of anticipation is ultimately more enjoyable than the disappointments that the reality of life will often bring, Though surely there is some irony that the passion in the anticipation alone is unfulfilling,...

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While the themes of the play are being drawn, Sophocles also plays with the audience's moral compass through the characterization of Antigone. ... Sophocles' intended structure in Antigone conveys very intricate yet simple ideas through the use of the odes and scene based themes throughout. ... When analyzing the entirety of the play's structure, the largest contrast in tone and fluidity is through the Odes and Scenes of Antigone. ... With respect to the audience's prior knowledge, Sophocles plays off of foreshadowing and utilized the Odes to provoke emotional appeal: "He m...

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British writers such as William Blake, William Wordsworth and John Keats creatively played upon nature, human moods specifically with regard to spontaneity on thoughts and actions, and their overall intellectual awakening to produce works that mirrored natural language and free flowing, unstructured dialogue. ... Wordsworth's "Ode to Duty- is a work that attempts to justify man's preordained choice to be either good or evil. ... - demonstrates, similarly to Blake, a play upon indefinable objectifications such as human desire and natural responsiveness. ... The last work in which f...

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This is clearly demonstrated in his poem, "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." ... In order to understand and recognize the traits that scream Romanticism in "Ode on Intimations of Immortality," one must first know what they are. ... Wordsworth's use of language in "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" is one way that he demonstrates many of these Romantic characteristics. ... The main theme of "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" is searching for comfort or peace while realizing the loss of childhood innocence and lack of constraint. ... Stanza VII continues illustrating this corruption and...

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" The Unsolved Riddle: a One Act Play Almost throughout the history of English poetry never came a poem so controversial as Keats" " Ode On a Grecian Urn". ... The three of them become members performing a play, with Keats as the writer, the director, and the metanarrator; the poem as the stage; the reader as the interactive audience and the perplexed critic. ... In this sense, the object portrayed: the actress, supposedly serving to convey the beauty of the means of depiction: the play-poem, eclipses it with her pioneering efficiency instead. ... In the fifth and...

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"Jazz on the Oder" held in Wroclaw each May for the past thirty years, the traditional and renowned 'Jazz on the Oder' festival unites both Polish and international talent in a non-stop jam session that never plays to less than a full house of jazz enthusiasts. ...

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From there, he wrote 120 plays in 62 years. 24 of his plays won first place in the Dionysia, and the rest placed second. ... Of all his works, only seven of Sophocles' plays remain fully intact. ... He began his career by writing a victory ode for a couple whose son won an Olympic game. From there, Pindar was hired to write odes for monarchs and nobles until he died. ... Five of his plays won the Dionysia. ...

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