A Formal, Often Ceremonious Lyric Poem That Addresses and Often Celebrates a Person, Place, Thing, Or Idea

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§ A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. Its stanza forms vary. § Pindaraic Ode- the original model. § This ode was named after an ancient Greek poet, Pindar, who began writing choral poems that were meant to be sung at public events. It contains three triads; strophe, antistrophe, and final stanza as epode, with irregular rhyme patterns and lengths of lines. § After this original one things got more and more informal and more fun. Happy the man, whose wish and care Sound sleep by night; study and easy, A few paernal acres bound, Together mixed, sweet recreation; Content to breathe his native air, And innocense, which most does please, In his own ground. With meditation. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; bread, Thus unlamented let me die; Whose flocks supply him with attire, Steal from the world, and not a stone, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, Tell where I lie. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcernedly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace and mind, Quiet by day § https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo § Socks § Tomatoes § Maize § A tuna in a market § Requirements § Must have at least 3 stanzas § Must contain literal imagery § Must contain at least one example of a metaphor Or a simile (figurative imagery) § Must use rhyme in some way (not necessarily end rhyme) § Must have an example of purposeful alliteration that draws Attention to an idea you think is important § Last stanza must express a thematic idea of value § Must use lofty language (for ode) § Must contain at least 20 lines For more help: http://www.powerpoetry.org/resources/writing-ode-poem.

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