-Romantic Ode composed in 1819, based on Roman models-Consists of five stanzas that present a scene, describe and comment on what it shows, and offer a general truth that the scene teaches a person analyzing the scene. Each stanza has ten lines written in iambic pentameter, a pattern of rhythm (meter) that assigns ten syllables to each line.
-Iambic refers to a pair of syllables, one unaccented and the other accented. Such a pair is called an iamb.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearièd,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea-shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
O Attic shape! fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
38 comments:
wow thats deep...
is this the one we have to read
yah
ode to joy. ode to jug.:)
This is the one you should read - you will need to chew on it - yeah...it's deep, but so is life...get used to it
I am a little confused..... lol
hhm...little confusing
I like chewing on things.... Like gum.
ode to a dead guy? eww. did he read it in front of a dead guys's ashes?!?
hmm very interesting
im still chewing on it a little bit it very hard to chew
ya im a lil bit over welmed, lol
While reading Ode on a Grecian Urn, it sruck me, Akon or 50cent should turn this poem into a rap!
CURSE YOU! Can you not at least respect great literature?
Bleah. Profaning it with your 'culture'. Bleah.
i agree with mike all DA way man
You misspelled "the." I bet Bach could spell. '50cent' probably can't. Like I said: "profaning [great literature] with your 'culture'."
Mathew, at least 50cent, Akon, eminem, and all of the other great ones that I am leaving out, could come up with kewl names. I mean Mozart and Bach is just boring.
Mike,
Can you honestly say that Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart isn't a cool name? How about Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger?
Seriously, Mike, I'd rather have an un-pronouncable name than one that is typically used to describe small amounts of money or popular chocolate candy.
Matthew
P.S. what's a "kewl"?
Mathew I just have to sit back and laugh at this. I swear you are the only person I know who admires classical music. I guess classical can satisfy u. Mabey someday you will see the light at the end of the tunnel and begin to appreciate the wonderous music of today. lol.
P.S. kewl=cool
Mike,
I firmly believe that the 'light at the end of the tunnel' is the headlight from an oncoming train. It'll hit you eventually. If you aren't dead, you'll realize your mistakes.
I have to say, he isn't the only one who appreciates the splendor of Classical Music. Composers today are crude. With such names as 'FiddyCent' and 'Eminem', I'm worried about where culture is going. Such appreciation for such low standards amaze me. At least in the 1700 and 1800s people were cared about the high standards of their music. All this rap and such today is expressive, but in a bad way. It's uneccessary to purvey such words in that manner. Use poetry, or art, or a different type of music. To add on, music in the Classical Period was organized and meticulous. Most music today is a slop of notes.
This is my opinion, and it's fine if you disagree with me. But I am quite shure that culture is on a declining route.
Well written! Amen!
ya...i totally agree w/mike. i mean...classical music was cool...about 10 centuries ago. i mean i totally respect those guys who wrote crazy music but um...we r in the 21st century now. so we r ppl into rap and stuff. and ode on a grecian urn rap would be frikin awesome.
mathew and chris, if mozar had the ability to wrie and perform rap he would. He couldn't though so he ahd to resort to classical music. Alos, I personaly like rap, for all the reasons u hate it, like the explicit language, and that sort of thing. I can see if u do not like that, but there is even good music now days that does not swear, like for exaple the all american rejects or pain by three days grace. If explicit lyrics bother u, then deffinently don't listen to 50cent, or other rap, but there are still great bands and songs out there with good language.
mathew, srry for my bad spelling in my previous comment, it's jsut that my good music in my room is blasting so loud that I can't concentrate.
NO! my classmates are falling into heresy and fallacy. Since Mr. Glenn doesn't seem to have had time to make an argument, I'll have to tackle this one myself. If you aren't prepared to read an essay (this one is more than 650 words), scroll down/skip.
This postage partially describes why I favor classical to modern. My intent is that it will help you misbelievers not to like Mozart (that might be pushing it) but to at least respect him.
Two warnings: If you'll just roll your eyes and sigh, stop here and now. Secondly, this contains some rather strong emotions. If you might get hurt, for your own safety, do not continue.
To start out, I'd like to say that Erin's comment of "we r in the 21st century now. so we r ppl into rap and stuff." (Translation: We are in the 21st Century, now. So, we are people into rap and things of the sort) has no actual backing. I hate to sound like a first grade teacher or a mother, but 'if everyone jumped off a cliff, would you follow?' Now, let's examine that statement. Why a cliff? Well, modern culture can't fit many other descriptions. I mean, come on! Look at what people are clothing themselves in these days! There are jeans so tight that they make vital organs splooge over the tops (hence the effective yet somewhat derogative name "muffin-top" jeans.) Don't even get me started on the holes and placing thereof. It's ridiculous. Why a cliff? Read on.
Classical music dominates over modern in many, many ways. To start with basics, content. I believe you are both Christian, correct? At least, you go to a Catholic school. If you can honestly say that blasphemy, profanity, glorification of... ahem... WOAH content, etc. etc. doesn't bother you or, even worse, pleases you, then you might be a lost case. However, if you are effected, how could you glorify such music? Now, grant it, like Mike said, some modern music doesn't contain such things. However, music for the glory of God has that one factor that has helped so many other things dominate: God. Anyways:
One can respect classical music if for a historical impact alone. Mozart and his noble fellows committed a truly amazing deed. Even if you don't appreciate the music for the music, you should at least realize its historical, cultural and overall amount of work put into their products. Along the same lines, Bach's work inspired Mozart; Mozart's Beethoven; Beethoven's Rheinberger; Rheinberger's Poulenc; Poulenc's work in turn inspired the music of the 1970's. (He died 196something, I believe). I hope I can make you see that without them, your petty (in my humble opinion) 'music' would've never existed. I've picked out multiple classic chord progressions in modern songs. Can you not appreciate them for that?
From my experience, which, granted, has been somewhat limited, classical music has another very noticeable trait that modern tends to lack: structure. Has anyone ever coined a "sonata allegro" form of rap? NO. It all sounds generally the same. Now, grant it, the songs have different words, but is there a major difference between any two given songs? I would say no.
My last point for classical: There is quality. Well, this isn't very disputable, for "degustabus non est disputandem," or something like that, but, the point is, when you have structured harmonics and melodies forming a beautiful sound compared to a guitar, drum and someone pretending to sing smashing out semi-chords, I know my choice.
I hope I haven't been to hard or hurt anybody's feelings, but, please, you don't have to like Mozart's music, but I seriously hope that you can respect him and me enough to stop the constant criticism of perhaps some of the most influential and intelligent people in the history of the world.
Thank you for your time (if you did, indeed, read this)
Matthew Yost
Okay, mathew i read ur essay and i realy do not feel like writing an essay to top that one so lets just sompromise. I will respect mozart, I stil can't stand classical though. I will not criticize it though, I jsut don't like it. Also to me all classical music sounds the same. Rap does not sound the same. Also what I mean is for instance before a baseball or basketball game, I listen to certain rap songs. They build up my energy. They make me fell more confident and I usualy play better. I can listen to rap, and get a feeling out of it, I can feel their emotions. If u think about some of these rappers, they had horrible backrounds. They grew up and lived in the "ghetto". They probaly went thru a lot in life, adn rap is their way of expressing themselves. When I listen to classical I do not get any feeling, except being bored, but that is jsut me. Beleive me, there is emotion put into rap. Also to prove my point the song: Hate it or Love it, by the game, to me expressing a lot of emotion and anger, I beleive that this emotion is not made up. I'm not going to lie this song conatains bad words so if u do not want to hear that stuff, do not listen to this! Is that a fair compromise, I won't like classical but I won;t bash it, You don't like rap but u wont bash it?
also, mathew, yes I am catholic, and my last blog was I think was 263 words.
I agree with everything you said but reversed into classical.(-swearing) For example, Beethoven grew up in the "ghetto", too.
Yes, I won't bash your music. I'm very glad we could reach an agreement.
ya im happy too.
Also everybody should click on my name and play the audio clip. I'm not a fan of greenday or u2, but they came together and made a great song, in memoery and for the victims of Katrina
mr. glenn are we getting our rough drafts back tomorrow?
matthew and mike:
why do u 2 waste so much time on arguing over simply what kind of music you both listen to? Gosh! i mean, some classical is ok and some rap is ok! cant we all just agree on that?! two words: D-I-F-F-E-R-E-N-T O-P-I-N-I-O-N-S. thats what its all about! i mean, i could argue about both of those types of music, but i know that everyone has their own opinion and would hav their own opposing reason for disagreeing with me. thats why i dont waste the time doing it!!!
Well, like Mr. Glenn said the other day the more you listen to a song the more you like it. Well it jsut doesn't seem to work that way with classical. I dunno, that's just me. They put a lot of hard work into the songs and they are pretty complex so I won't bash classical.
I have to hand it to you guys. I was able to waste 15 whole minutes on this extremely boring and unreasonable argument! congrads!!!!!
so do we not hav h.w. for 2morrow? i guess not! *rejoices*
Sorry, this might've been the longest drawn out comeback ever, but: It isn't about having different opinions or wasting time, but I do this for fun. (Ahem,) "JK." The problem occured when expression of the different opinions was made. And as they used to say, "You've impuned my honor. I challenge you to a duel."
However, the duel has been fought, so let it rest in peace.
Matthew
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