This document discusses John Keats' famous odes from 1819. It provides background on Keats and defines what an ode is. It then summarizes each of Keats' major odes: Ode to a Grecian Urn focuses on themes of art, reality, and the urn's depictions; Ode to Autumn personifies the season and its harvest; Ode to a Nightingale contrasts the beauty and tragedy of nature and human life; Ode to Psyche addresses themes of myth, religion, and love. The document compares Keats' odes to works in Gujarati literature and analyzes themes and symbols within the odes.

1. Topic:- Theme of odes
Submitted to: Heenaba Zala
Smt. S.B. Gardi
Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.

2.  John Keats was born on 31 October
1795 to Thomas and Frances
Jennings Keats in Central London
 He was a second generation
Romantic poet.
 His first surviving poem ’An
Imitation of Spenser’ comes in
1814, when Keats was nineteen.
 Other works considered to be among
Keats's greatest are the odes
published in 1820.

3. •The word “ode” is of Greek
origin, meaning “sung”.
• An ode is a poem of a noble
feeling and expression of dignity
to someone/ something loved.
• It may be regular or irregular on
its verse form, depending upon
the emotional needs of its subject.

4. In 1819, John Keats composed six odes in a short period
of time that have become some of his most famous
poems.
These odes represent Keats's attempt to create a new
type of short lyrical poem, which influenced later
generations.
 Keats's ode’s work compare to Gujarati Literature Poet
& Poetry like:
Kalapi’s Poet Agiya – Nightingale


5. Ode to
Grecian urn.
Ode to
Autumn.
Ode to
Nightingale.
Ode to
Psyche.

6.  An urn was a kind of vase generally made by marble or of
brass. Often different kinds scene and situation were carved
on the outer surface of urn. Keats conveys his ideas about
various scenes depicted on the urn.
 According to Charles Patterson :
“ode to Grecian urn gives as much important to passion
as to the idea of performance.”
 ‘Beauty is truth, truth is beauty’
REALITY
IDEAL ART
IMAGINATION
URN

7. Past
Present
Future

8. Ribirth
RipenessDeath

9. Autumn – Female
Goddess
Temporality,
morality and
change
Autumn – Old
age or death
In the first stanza :
the poet describes
the fruit of autumn
,the fruit coming to
maturity in readiness
for harvesting .
In second stanza:
Autumn is
personified as a
woman present at the
various operations of
the harvest.
In the last stanza: The End of
the year is associated with
sunset, the song of spring are
over night is falling , but
there is no felling of sadness
because autumn gas its own
song.

11. If you’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird,
you know why “it’s a sin to kill a
mockingbird”—they do nothing but
sing, so they do not harm humans in
any way. They do not destroy
property, they eat pesky insects, and
their singing is beautiful.
The bird’s Anglo-Saxon name,
“nihtingale,” means “night
songstress.”

12. Beauty of
nature or
Human life.
Tragedy
Nightingale
as symbol
Mortal
Immortal

13. Myth
Religion
Love

14. Ode to
Nightingale
Ode to
Autumn
Ode to
Grecian Urn
Ode to Psyche
Beauty of
nature and
Human life
Beauty of
Season Beauty of Urn
Beauty of
Psyche
Tragedy
Human life
Beauty
Birth
Ripeness
Death
Past
Present
Feature
Myth
Religion
Love