9 hours ago · This got me thinking of the ode as a vessel for the writer to put all of their excess feelings. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is an ekphrastic ode, where Keats meditates on the art within a piece of art: the inscriptions on a Grecian urn he saw at the British Museum. He begins the poem: Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
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"Ode on Melancholy" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819, along with "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on Indolence", and "Ode to Psyche". The narrative of the poem describes the poet's perception of melancholy through a lyric discourse between the poet and the reader, along with the introduction to Ancient Grecian characters and ideals. Wikipedia
