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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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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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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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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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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They created plays that are still considered among the greatest works of art in theater. ... Ordinarily, each actor would play many different roles, and to divide the speaking parts in a tragedy up by determining which characters were in the same scene. ... Sophocles, Aristotle was a philosopher that later on had very good ideas to put in plays. ... The archaeological evidence suggests that between 460 and 431 BCE (and probably at the time the Odeion was built) the orchestra was shifted north and west of its original position, and the hillside excavated further to make a more secu...

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As one of the greatest wordsmiths of all time, William Shakespeare made powerful use of imagery to convey the themes and subject matter in his poetry and plays. ... These observations of Shakespeare's also put to shame the over the top ramblings of other authors odes of love to their women, the hidden meaning (purpose?) ...

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He produced over 100 plays in the next 62 years. He never came in third place with his great plays. ... Not many of his plays can be accurately dated. (A short summary of the play follows.) ... The Chorus delivers an ode to Dionysis. ...

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Add a recent incident in which the feelers played a home concert in Christchurh for a winning ZM listener, after which Hamish was seen leaving... carrying the winners" television set... ... We had to squirt these girls with water pistols and were supposed to play volleyball against them, but decided to do running tackles on them instead." ... Next project on the feelers" agenda, however, is an ode to hometown heroes The Crusaders. "It will be played in A Major, on a Gibson guitar, through a Marshall Amp and will be 80 minutes long," says Hamish. ...

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The Reflections of Nature in Ode on a Grecian Urn, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey During the Romantic movement, many poets write about nature thematically. ... In Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats expresses a love for art and nature, which are two major themes of the Romantic period. ... Keats also uses nature when he is describing the piper who plays an "unheard melody" (Keats 1). He explains to the reader that the piper is sitting beneath trees as he plays his pipe. ...

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I've seen and heard many of my friend's play, which only led me to want to learn to play more. ... These three Guitarists only fed my hunger to learn to play. ... After I memorizing the first three strings, I started to learn the songs "Ode to Joy" and "Happy Birthday". ... I felt like I was getting the hang of playing guitar and felt more motivated with my progress. ... In conclusion, this was a great experience and I learned a lot through it, not only how to play the Guitar. ...

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In "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" and "Ode to the West Wind," the basis is nature, and the search for knowledge and understanding the beauty of nature itself. ... In Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind," the wind is the force that has all the power. ... If we look further into it, one can say the use of the seasons also comes into play. ...

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With this in play, death remains the one true form of individuality and self expression. ... When the orderly is first seen, she is heard singing an ode to the gas chambers and population control disguised as a love song, declaring that if the object of the singer's affection does not return his love, he will "get off this old planet, let some sweet baby have my place" (3). ...

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Reason played a huge part in Puritan opinions. ... So, even though people might not agree with the Puritan's method of maintaining order in Massachusetts, they can't argue the fact that oder was kept effectively, thus another puritan ambition fulfilled. ...

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"He played a few chords then he sang some more - "I got the Weary Blues"" (24 - 25). ... Langston Hughes in his poem "The Weary Blues" writes an ode to the blues, and he is so effective at it that he makes it appear it like a blues song. ...

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Confucius is the Latinized form of K"ung Ch"iu or Master K"ung. Confucius was a man who showed wisdom. He taught moral code based on ethics, humanity and love. He taught his disciples the five virtues, these being courtesy, mag-nan-im-ity, good faith, diligence, and kindness. Confucius only taug...

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How about how reactant proportions role play in engine efficiency? ... Speaking origenally german, he said in the year of 1792, and I quote, "Die sta‚ ¶chyometrie ist die Wissenschaft die quantitativen oder Massenverha‚ ¤ltnisse zu messen, in welchen die chymischen Elemente gegen einander stehen." ...

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