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In the end, the poem reads like a sincere ode to the pleasures of sloth, and maybe even an excuse to hit the snooze button rather than get up and write. But is he telling you to sleep late and blow off your day job?
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In the first stanza, Keats’s speaker describes a vision he had one morning of three strange figures wearing white robes and “placid sandals.” The figures passed by in profile, and the speaker describes their passing by comparing them to figures carved into the side of a marble urn, or vase. When the last figure passed by, the first figure reappeare...
Like all the other odes but “To Autumn” and “Ode to Psyche,” “Ode on Indolence” is written in ten-line stanzas, in a relatively precise iambic pentameter. Like the others (again, with the exception of “Ode to Psyche”), its stanzas are composed of two parts: an opening four-line sequence of alternating rhymed lines (ABAB), and a six-line sequence wi...
Chronologically, the “Ode on Indolence” was probably the second ode. It was composed in the spring of 1819, after “Ode on Melancholy” and a few months before “To Autumn.” However, when the odes are grouped together as a sequence, “Indolence” is often placed first in the group—an arrangement that makes sense, considering that “Indolence” raises the ...
"Ode on Indolence" is a romantic ode, a dignified but highly lyrical (emotional) poem in which the author speaks to a person or thing absent or present. In this famous ode, the speaker addresses Love, Ambition, and Poesy (poetry) as if they were persons. .......
May 17, 2024 · We cannot run away from the end, so why don’t we enjoy nature and live peacefully without getting into trouble. Ode on indolence is about staying idle and to find the natural beauty to remain alive instead of chasing dreams, love and emotions.
Feb 12, 2022 · As I have suggested, where “nothingness” at the end of “When I have fears” has the implication of death, non-being, and loss of meaning, at the end of stanza 2 of the “Ode on Indolence” it signifies a wise passivity that does not want to commit itself precipitously to anything in particular.
- Henry Weinfield
- hweinfie@nd.edu
At the end of this poem, he requests those chimeric figures to fade away and leave him alone with his other dreams. Meaning. This ode, on an abstract idea “Indolence,” is about a speaker who is daydreaming about the three figures noticed on an urn. Indolence or laziness is an inclination to lethargy.
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Apr 23, 2020 · What happens when all the typical things that we have become accustomed to being assailed with on a daily basis suddenly disappear? Rather than dwell on those questions, let us attempt to understand Keats’s meaning by seeing what happens on the other side of this “nothingness”: A third time pass’d they by, and, passing, turn’d
