ODE
Define
What is...
a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
Define
What is a whole section of poetry dedicated to lamenting the dead?
"Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers,
Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress,
With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spirit
Lady, not longer!
Hear anew the voice! O hear and listen!
Come, as in that island dawn thou camest,
Billowing in thy yoked car to Sappho
Forth from thy Father's
Golden house in pity!"
William Wordsworth is a good example of a more modern poem
What is Pindaric Ode
What are the three types of ode?
What is Pindaric, Horatian, Irregular
An elegy poem starts off
What is mournfully?
"Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?"
British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley's
What is Irregular Odes
Odes were originally performed to ____
What is Music
What is the rhyme scheme of a elegy?
What is ABAB written in iambic pentameter.
"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead."
Walt Whitman's poem entitled, "O Captain! My Captain!"
What is Elegy
The Greek word oide means _____
What is "to sing or chant."
What are the types of elegy?
What is Personal Elegy and Impersonal Elegy.
"The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;
The wise man homewards plods; I only stay
To fiddle-faddle in a minor key."
Poet Ambrose Bierce
What is Elegy?
What is the length of an ode?
What is The length of an ode can vary, but they tend to be several stanzas that follow a fixed pattern.