The document discusses myths referenced in John Keats' odes, including "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode to Grecian Urn", and "Ode to Psyche". It analyzes the mythical figures, places, and stories that influenced Keats' poems, such as the Greek myth of the dryad referenced in "Ode to a Nightingale", and the classical story of Psyche and Cupid alluded to in "Ode to Psyche". The document provides examples from Keats' lines that incorporate these Greek and Roman myths.

1. Name: Nikunj Bhatti
Roll no.:19
M.A. Semester: 2
Enrolment No.: 14101005
Year: 2014-15
Paper no.: 5 (Romantic literature)
Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Topic: Myths in Keats’ Odes

2. His Odes
 Ode to Nightingale
 Ode to Grecian Urn
 Ode to Psyche
 Ode to Autumn
John Keats

3. What
Is ?
 A myth is a story that may or may not be true.
 Myths are generally very old.
 All culture have myths.
 Myth means a false belief.
 “Myth convert history in to the nature”

4. Myth of Greek
 Ode to a Nightingale
 ‘Dryad’ in Greek mythology it means
is a female spirit attached to a tree.
 Free from body or society.
 The nightingale is compared to a
wood-nymph.
 Nightingale in England sing in the
woods.
For example, Line: 7
“That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees”
Myth of Dryad

5. Myth of Hippocrene
 This poem also inspired by a Greek
form.
 According to Greek myth it means
‘Hippocrene’ was the name of a spring
that the winged horse Pegasus created
by stamping its hoof into the ground.
For example, Line:16
“Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,”

6. Myth of Bacchus
• ‘Bacchus ’ is the Greek God of
wine and also drunkenness.
• The speaker also claims that his
escape into the nightingale’s world
will not be due to drunkenness.
• He was the last god to join the twelve
Olympians.
For example, Line: 32
“Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,”

7.  In classical methodology Psyche was a beautiful
maiden, of whom the goddess Venus was
extremely jealous.
 Venus sent her son to humalitiate the girl.
 But Cupid fall in love with psyche and took her
away to a secrete valley where he visited her each
night.
Ode to Psyche

8. Myth of Psyche
• The speaker opens the
poem with an address to
the goddess Psyche,
Urging her to hear his
words and asking that
she forgive him for
singing to her own
secrets. The speaker says
he knew the winged boy
but asks who the girl was.

9. Myth of Olympians
• Greek Gods.
• The Olympian are a group of
12 Greek Gods.
• Psyche describing her as the
youngest and most beautiful of
all the Olympians gods and
goddesses.
• She has no temple no altars, no
choir tossing for her and so no.

10. Myths of Tempe & Arcady
• ‘Tempe’ & ‘Arcady’ both are
places name.
• Both are place’s of great beauty
in classical mythology.
• Tempe is a valley in Thessaly ,
Grees between mount Olympus
and Mount Ossa that is favored
by Apollo , the god of poetry and
music.
• Arcady is Arcadia.