Entertainment / Literature / Ode: A long, often elaborate stanzaic poem of varying line lengths and sometimes intricate rhyme schemes dealing with a serious subject matter and treating it reverently. The ode is usually much longer than the song or lyric, but usually not as long as the epic poem. Conventionally, many odes are written or dedicated to a specific subject. For instance, 'Ode to the West Wind' is about the winds that bring change of season in England. Keats has a clever inversion of this convention in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,' in which his choice of the preposition on implies the poem actually exists in the artwork on the urn itself, rather than as a separate piece of literary art in his poetry. Classical odes are often divided by tone, with Pindaric odes being heroic and ecstatic and Horatian odes being cool, detached, and balanced with criticism. Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland' is an example of a Horatian ode.
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