This document summarizes John Keats' use of Greek mythology in his odes. It analyzes how Keats references myths in Ode to a Nightingale (Dryad, Hippocrene, Bacchus), Ode to Psyche (myth of Psyche and Cupid), and mentions myths used in Ode to Grecian Urn (Olympians), and Ode to Autumn (Tempe, Arcady). The document is a student paper analyzing Keats' allusions to Greek myths across several of his major odes.

1. Paper Name : ROMANTIC LITERATURE
Presentation Topic: Use of myth in Keats odes
Sem : 2
Name: Solanki Pintu V
Roll No : 31
Enrollment No: PG15101037
Email: solankipintu1991@gmail.com
Submitted to :
M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSUTY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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

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.
Myth of Dryad

5.  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.
Myth of Hippocrene

6. • ‘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.
Myth of Bacchus
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.