myths in keats odes

1. Name:-Mansi Upadhyay
Rollno :- 18
Semester :- 2
Year :- 2018-19
Paperno :- 5 ( Romantic Literature)
Topic :- Myths in keats’ odes
E-Mail :- mansiupadhyay06@gmail.com
Submittedto :- Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. John Keats introduction
 John keats was
born in Moorgate,
London, in 31
October 1795 to
Thomas keats and
his wife, Frances
Jennings. John
keats was an
English Romantic
poet. John keats
was died in 23
February 1821
(aged 25).

3. John Keats
His Odes
• Ode to Nightingale
• Ode to Grecian Urn
• Ode to Psyche
• Ode to Autumn

4. What is MYTH?
 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”

5. Myth ode to a nightingale
 Introduction :
 First published in 1819
 The nightingale is a
symbol of beauty.
 It is one kind of song
 The nightingale song
within the poem is
connected to the art of
music
 Comparison between
the mortal & immortal
world.

6.  ‘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
Myth of Dryad

7.  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 :- 16
“Full of the true , the
Myth of Hippocrene

8.  ‘Bacchus’ is the Greek God
of wine and also
drunkenness.
 The speaker also claim 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”.
Myth of Bacchus

9. Ode to Psyche
• Romantic poetry
• Full of context of ode
• Psyche is youngest daughter of king
• Keats speaker opens the poem with an address to
the goddess psyche.
•In this poem the story of the woman so beautiful
that love fell in with her
•Projected outward in to art
•“ode to psyche” is a famous myth

10.  In classical methodolog
psyche was a beautiful
maiden, of whom the
goddess venus was
extremely jealous.
 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 who the girl
was.
Myth of
Psyche

11.  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.
Myth of Olympians

12. • ‘Tempe’ & ‘Arcady’ both are places name.
• both are place’s of great beauty in classical
mythology.
• temple 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.
Myths of Tempe & Arcady