WORD: ODE
MEANING:
1. A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.
2.
a. A choric song of classical Greece, often accompanied by a dance and performed at a public festival or as part of a drama.
b. A classical Greek poem modeled on the choric ode and usually having a three-part structure consisting of a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Keats `Ode to knightingale is an ode.
2. It is the ode on the fall of the king of Babylon in chap 5.
3. This anecdote forms the subject of Dryden's Ode to Saint Cecilia's Day.
PRONOUNCE:
ode - ओड
LINK: ODE
MEANING:
1. A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.
2.
a. A choric song of classical Greece, often accompanied by a dance and performed at a public festival or as part of a drama.
b. A classical Greek poem modeled on the choric ode and usually having a three-part structure consisting of a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Keats `Ode to knightingale is an ode.
2. It is the ode on the fall of the king of Babylon in chap 5.
3. This anecdote forms the subject of Dryden's Ode to Saint Cecilia's Day.
PRONOUNCE:
ode - ओड
LINK: ODE
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