Ode on Melancholy

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Ode on Melancholy is a lyric poem by John Keats that explores the intimate relationship between beauty, joy, and transience in the face of sorrow.

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Ode on Melancholy canonical 5
“Ode on Melancholy” 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lyric poem
poem
addressee general reader
advisesAgainst self-destructive oblivion
suicide
associatedWith Ode on Indolence
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
To Autumn
author John Keats
authorNationality English
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
exploresRelationshipBetween beauty and melancholy
joy and sorrow
pleasure and pain
firstPublicationYear 1820
firstPublishedIn La Belle Dame sans Merci
surface form: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems
form lyric
genre ode
includedIn standard editions of John Keats's poems
language English
literaryDevice allusion
imagery
metaphor
oxymoron
paradox
personification
simile
symbolism
literaryMovement Romanticism
meter iambic pentameter
narrativeVoice lyric speaker
numberOfStanzas 3
periodOfComposition 1819
publicationType poetry collection
recommendsResponseToMelancholy embracing transient beauty
intensifying experience of joy
rhymeScheme ABAB CDE DCE (stanza 3)
ABAB CDECDE (stanza 1)
ABAB CDECDE (stanza 2)
stanzaLength 10 lines per stanza
structure imperative address to the sufferer of melancholy
theme aesthetic experience
beauty and sorrow
ephemeral nature of happiness
interdependence of pleasure and pain
melancholy
mortality
transience of joy

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John Keats notableWork Ode on Melancholy
Ode to a Nightingale relatedWorkByAuthor Ode on Melancholy
Fanny Brawne connectedToWork Ode on Melancholy
Wentworth Place, Hampstead significantWorkComposed Ode on Melancholy
this entity surface form: “Ode on Melancholy”
Ode on a Grecian Urn relatedWork Ode on Melancholy
John notableWork Ode on Melancholy
subject surface form: John Keats