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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ode on Melancholy canonical | 5 |
| “Ode on Melancholy” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Ode on Melancholy Context triple: [John Keats, notableWork, Ode on Melancholy]
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a celebrated Romantic-era lyric poem by John Keats that meditates on art, beauty, and the nature of truth through the imagined scenes on an ancient Greek vase.
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Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Nightingale is a celebrated Romantic lyric poem by John Keats that meditates on mortality, beauty, and the transcendent power of art through the symbol of the nightingale’s song.
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality" is a major lyric poem by William Wordsworth reflecting on childhood, memory, and the loss and partial recovery of a visionary sense of the divine in nature.
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Ode to the West Wind
"Ode to the West Wind" is a renowned Romantic lyric poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that invokes the power of the natural world as a force for personal and political transformation.
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Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
"Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" is a mock-elegiac poem by Thomas Gray that humorously recounts the drowning of a cat while offering a moral about vanity and temptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Ode on Melancholy Target entity description: 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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A.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a celebrated Romantic-era lyric poem by John Keats that meditates on art, beauty, and the nature of truth through the imagined scenes on an ancient Greek vase.
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B.
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Nightingale is a celebrated Romantic lyric poem by John Keats that meditates on mortality, beauty, and the transcendent power of art through the symbol of the nightingale’s song.
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C.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality" is a major lyric poem by William Wordsworth reflecting on childhood, memory, and the loss and partial recovery of a visionary sense of the divine in nature.
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D.
Ode to the West Wind
"Ode to the West Wind" is a renowned Romantic lyric poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that invokes the power of the natural world as a force for personal and political transformation.
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E.
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
"Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" is a mock-elegiac poem by Thomas Gray that humorously recounts the drowning of a cat while offering a moral about vanity and temptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
lyric poem
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poem ⓘ |
| addressee | general reader ⓘ |
| advisesAgainst |
self-destructive oblivion
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suicide ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ode on Indolence
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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
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joy and sorrow ⓘ pleasure and pain ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1820 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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surface form:
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems
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| form | lyric ⓘ |
| genre | ode ⓘ |
| includedIn | standard editions of John Keats's poems ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
allusion
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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
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intensifying experience of joy ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme |
ABAB CDE DCE (stanza 3)
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ABAB CDECDE (stanza 1) ⓘ ABAB CDECDE (stanza 2) ⓘ |
| stanzaLength | 10 lines per stanza ⓘ |
| structure | imperative address to the sufferer of melancholy ⓘ |
| theme |
aesthetic experience
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beauty and sorrow ⓘ ephemeral nature of happiness ⓘ interdependence of pleasure and pain ⓘ melancholy ⓘ mortality ⓘ transience of joy ⓘ |
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