Poems of Celebration Odes can Celebrate Commemorate Meditate on people events or in Nerudas case ordinary objects Its not true that all poems are depressing Originally Formallystructured ID: 575217
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Odes!
Poems of CelebrationSlide2
Odes can:
Celebrate
CommemorateMeditate on people, events, or, in Neruda’s case, ordinary objects
It’s not true that all poems are depressing!Slide3
Originally…
Formally-structured
Written for choruses in Greek plays to sing or chantA Brief History of the OdeSlide4
Named for Pindar, ancient Greek poet
Chorus
speaks and moves left, speaks again and moves right, then finishes with a third responseLeft = strophe
Same stanza form
Right = antistrophe
Final response = epode = different form
Pindaric odes were celebratory and heroic
Pindaric OdesSlide5
Excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
O
wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou
, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are
driven,
like
ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow
, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
Example:Slide6
In the manner of the Roman poet Horace
Short
lyric poems (lyric poems express thought or feelings rather than telling a story)Stanzas of 2 – 4 linesIntimate
and
reflective, rather than celebratory and heroic
Often addressed
to a friend and deal with friendship, love, and the practice
of poetry.
Horatian OdeSlide7
Extract
from
“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats (1795-1821)
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains (A)
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
(
B)
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
(A
)
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: (B)'Tis not through envy of the happy lot, (C)But being too happy in thy happiness,- (
D)
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
(
E)In some melodious plot (C)Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, (D)Singest of summer in full-throated ease. (E)
Example:Slide8
Named for Abraham Cowley
Used by modern poets such as Neruda
Modern odes may be humorous, but still commemorate the beauty poets find in unexpected placesWith the Cowleyan Ode, the ode is freed from formal constraints of rhyme, meter, and stanza pattern
Neruda uses short-lined free verse for his odes
Cowleyan OdeSlide9
Listen to Neruda’s Odes…Slide10
Ode to the WatermelonSlide11
What is he comparing the watermelon to?
What is the relationship between the people and the poem and the watermelon like? Support ideas with text.
How does the poem move, progress, from beginning to end?How would you define the tone and mood of this poem?
Ode to the WatermelonSlide12
Ode to a Chestnut on the GroundSlide13
What is different about the form of address Neruda uses in this poem? How does he address the chestnut? How is this similar to, different from the last poem, and how does the mood of the poem change with this choice?
Where can you find humor in this poem?
How does the poem move from beginning to end?Is the chestnut “just a seed,” or is it more? Support your ideas with text.
Ode to a Chestnut on the GroundSlide14
Ode to the Book (II)Slide15
What do you make of this poem? How is it similar to or different from the others?
What is the book, according to Neruda? List all the attributes of the book and draw a conclusion.
Ode to the Book (II)Slide16
Which
ode is your favorite and why?
How are these poems similar to and different from the other poems we’ve read by Neruda so far?
ReflectionSlide17
Invention: Write and illustrate your own Ode