RAM: a parody

In 1989 British comics book genius Hunt Emerson published his own take on Coleridge's famed gothic ballad.

Go to: http://www.largecow.demon.co.uk/books/index.html
to check out some of his amazing drawings!

On Keats (ODES)

Definition:

'an ode is an exalted, complex, rapturous lyric (yet with a narrative structure) poem written about a dignifies, lofty subject.'

The original ancient odes were written in Greece, delivered by a chorus singing and performing an elaborate dance. The Greek poet Pindar developed the first odes consisting of complex stanzaic forms in units of 3 (the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode). Each section had a movement of the chorus in dance rhythm: together they were meant to correspond to the ebbs and flows of emotion!

In English there are 3 approximate types of odes:

1. Pindaric (regular) ode - similar to the Ancient Greek historic antecendent;

2. Horation (homostrophic) ode: after Roman poet's Horace's verses - it consists of one repeated stanza type (Keats' 'Ode to Autumn');

3. Irregular ode: after Abraham Cowely's odes (17th century poet), imitates the spirit of the Pindaric or regular ode, but disregards the strophe and the stanza rules/ Very flexible and offers the poet to change stanza line structure, length, meter and rhyme.

Choose ONE of Keats' or Shelly's odes and note down to which type of ode it belongs and why.