Ode to Psyche

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Ode to Psyche is a Romantic-era lyric poem by John Keats that meditates on the Greek goddess Psyche and the power of imaginative devotion.

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Ode to Psyche canonical 5
“Ode to Psyche” 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romantic poem
lyric poem
poem
addresses goddess Psyche
linked to: Psyche
alludesTo myth of Cupid and Psyche
author John Keats
character Cupid
Psyche
compositionPeriod 1819
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReputation highly regarded in Keats scholarship
explores creation of a private religion of love
relationship between poet and deity
role of the imagination in worship
firstPublicationYear 1820
firstPublishedIn Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems
focusesOn power of imaginative devotion
followedBy Ode on a Grecian Urn
form ode
hasApproximateLineCount about 67 lines
imagery nature imagery
temple imagery
invokes Psyche as a neglected deity
language English
literaryGenre lyric
literaryMovement Romanticism
literaryPeriod Romantic era
linked to: Romanticism
metricalPattern varied meter
narrativeVoice first person
partOf Keats's 1819 odes
precededBy earlier minor poems by John Keats
proposes building a temple in the mind
rhymeScheme irregular
setting imagined inner garden
subject Eros
linked to: Eros (primordial)

Greek mythology
Psyche
theme devotion
imagination
inner sanctuary
love
the creative mind
worship
tone meditative
reverent
writtenBy English Romantic poet John Keats
linked to: John Keats

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John Keats notableWork Ode to Psyche
Wentworth Place, Hampstead significantWorkComposed “Ode to Psyche”
linked to: Ode to Psyche
Ode on a Grecian Urn relatedWork Ode to Psyche
Ode on Melancholy associatedWith Ode to Psyche
John Keats notableWork Ode to Psyche
subject linked to: John