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"Ode to Psyche" is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes, which include "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale". "Ode to Psyche" is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats's attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene.
"Ode to Psyche" is a 67-line poem written in stanzas of varying length, which took its form from modification Keats made to the sonnet structure. [24] The ode is written to a Grecian mythological character, displaying a great influence of Classical culture as the poet begins his discourse with "O GODDESS!" (line 1).
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Indolence; Ode on Melancholy; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Psyche;
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
Ode to Apollo (1815) Robin Hood (To a Friend) (1818) Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (1818) Ode to Maia (1818) Bards of Passion and of Mirth (1818) Ode to Fanny (1819) 1819 odes: Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Indolence; Ode on Melancholy; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Psyche; To Autumn
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid; Love and Psyche (David) O. Ode to Psyche; P. Psyché (opera) Psyche (Locke ...
Between April 21 and the end of May Keats writes La Belle Dame sans Merci and most of his major odes: Ode to Psyche, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Indolence and Ode on Melancholy. In the summer he writes Lamia; on September 19 he writes his ode To Autumn at Winchester; [2] and on October 19 proposes marriage to Fanny.
Ode on Melancholy" contains references to classical themes, characters, and places such as Psyche, Lethe, and Proserpine in its description of melancholy, as allusions to Grecian art and literature were common among the "five great odes".