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Ode to Psyche

"Ode to Psyche" is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes, which include "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale". "Ode to Psyche" is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats's attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene. The poem serves as an important departure from Keats's early poems, which frequently describe an escape into the pleasant realms of one's imagination. Keats uses the imagination to show the narrator's intent to resurrect Psyche and reincarnate himself into Eros . Keats attempts this by dedicating an "untrodden region" of his mind to the worship of the neglected goddess.


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“So let me be thy choir, and make a moan
Upon the midnight hours”

"Ode to Psyche", st. 3
Poems (1820)

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