Elegy, Ode

 

Elegy, Ode

What is the similarity?

What is the difference ?

 

Answer

Ode and Elegy are both lyrical poems of Greek origins. An ode is a formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that glorifies an individual, event, or a concept. An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, characteristically a lament for the dead. The main difference between ode and elegy is that ode praises or glorifies someone or something whereas elegy laments over the loss of something or someone

 

 

One of the most famous masters of the Horatian ode was John Keats.

A few lines from An ode to a Nightingale By Keats

 

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

Examples of famed elegies include:

"Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,/Compels me to disturb your season due:/For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,/Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer."
-"Lycidas" by John Milton

 

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