Ode to Psyche

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Ode to Psyche is a Romantic-era lyric poem by John Keats that meditates on the Greek goddess Psyche and the power of imaginative devotion.

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Ode to Psyche canonical 5
“Ode to Psyche” 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romantic poem
lyric poem
poem
addresses Psyche
surface form: goddess Psyche
alludesTo myth of Cupid and Psyche
author John Keats
character Cupid
Psyche
compositionPeriod 1819
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReputation highly regarded in Keats scholarship
explores creation of a private religion of love
relationship between poet and deity
role of the imagination in worship
firstPublicationYear 1820
firstPublishedIn The Eve of St. Agnes
surface form: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems
focusesOn power of imaginative devotion
followedBy Ode on a Grecian Urn
form ode
hasApproximateLineCount about 67 lines
imagery nature imagery
temple imagery
invokes Psyche as a neglected deity
language English
literaryGenre lyric
literaryMovement Romanticism
literaryPeriod Romanticism
surface form: Romantic era
metricalPattern varied meter
narrativeVoice first person
partOf Ode on a Grecian Urn
surface form: Keats's 1819 odes
precededBy earlier minor poems by John Keats
proposes building a temple in the mind
rhymeScheme irregular
setting imagined inner garden
subject Eros (primordial)
surface form: Eros

Greek mythology
Psyche
theme devotion
imagination
inner sanctuary
love
the creative mind
worship
tone meditative
reverent
writtenBy John Keats
surface form: English Romantic poet John Keats

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John Keats notableWork Ode to Psyche
Wentworth Place, Hampstead significantWorkComposed Ode to Psyche
this entity surface form: “Ode to Psyche”
Ode on a Grecian Urn relatedWork Ode to Psyche
Ode on Melancholy associatedWith Ode to Psyche
John notableWork Ode to Psyche
subject surface form: John Keats