Ode to Joy Essays

  • Ludwig Van Beethoven 9th Symphony

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    the music, piece by piece with some help to understand and ... ... middle of paper ... ...ers--over the canopy of stars Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen! A loving Father must live. and these lines are then repeated. The religious section of the ode begins as the chorus intones in an awed manner: Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen? Millions, do you fall upon your knees? The music rises hopefully toward God and the heavens as the final lines of verse are sung: Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt? Do you

  • Beethoven's 9th Symphony Analysis

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    Beethoven 's 9th Symphony is a very famous piece of 19th century music that is known around the world. Different people have different opinions on this piece, for example, a musician that has studied Beethoven and his music in detail may think differently compared to someone who is not so knowledgeable about the subject. These opinions, from two different perspectives, have been formed based on values that have been constructed and shaped by the society in which we live today. This essay will discuss

  • Impressing My Father

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    his only son take after him must have been great. My brother and my dad are the two people I adore and respect the most in this world and all I wanted to do was be like then and make them proud. After my brother died, I never saw that look of pure joy in my father’s eyes. I would try so hard to impress him. I played the violin, cello, piano, and even the flute hoping to please him but it was all in vain. I never saw even a glimmer of pride in his eyes. I would often ask. ”Daddy are you proud of me

  • Joy's Best Friend Character Analysis Essay

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    prideful woman named Joy. By taking notice of this Pointer is able to play on Joys pride by comforting her and acting as if he is an ignorant man to get what he wants. Mr. Pointer interacts with Mrs. Hopewell and is ultimately invited inside of her house “to speak of serious things.” She brings him into the parlor and they discuss the lack of a bible. Well into their discussion Mrs. Hopewell excuses herself. “I have to check on my dinner. She went out to the kitchen and found Joy near the door where

  • Book Analysis: People Shaped Wes Moore

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    the author put much emphasis on the mothers of the two Wes’. Author Wes’s mother Joy immigrated to the U.S and had to learn how to fit into American society at a very young age. She joined an activist group while attending American University in Washington, D.C. The things she experienced as she assimilated into a new county and culture developed in her a passion for justice and decisiveness when faced with choices. Joy learned, in a conversation with the Dean of Wes' school, that Wes was being put

  • Essay on Earth's Holocaust and The Birthmark

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    into intercourse with the world. Hester is saved at the end not by the "consecration of its own" she once thought blessed her union with Dimmesdale, not by escape into ... ... middle of paper ... ...ch somehow we all bear complicity, and with both joy and trouble intensifed by love, linking us to others who share in the human condition. With such distinctions, we can hardly call Hawthorne a true and complete hippie. Neither can we deny that he shared the hippies' aversions and the most essential

  • Ode On The Joy Of Youth In Yeats's Sailing To Byzantium

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    Synopsis: Sailing to Byzantium is Yeats’s ode on the hardship of old age in comparison the joy of youth which he claims is the only pride of an old man as it shows his hearts desire that is deceived by the appearance of his aging body. In the poem Yeats tries to move spiritually to Byzantium where he seeks immortality through becoming an artificial piece. Yeats ends the poem saying his wish to become an artificial piece so he is never reincarnated into old age with the memories of his youth. Thus

  • 'Ode To A Nightingale And Ode On Melancholy'

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    All written in just one month "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "Ode on Melancholy" were a result of Keats’ feelings during that time. These feelings were, “the intense awareness of both the joy and pain, the happiness and the sorrow, of human life” (Thomas). Keats greatly contemplated human beings need to placate their craving for happiness in a “world where joy and pain are inevitably and inextricably tied together” (Thomas). This amalgamation of elation and agony is the integral

  • John Keats Speech

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    chose this particular poet as I believe his ideas are the best expressed of the composers we have studied. I have looked at "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy" and "Ode to Autumn" and I think some important comparisons can be drawn from them. Each poem has been chosen because I think that the ideas conveyed in them are among the more significant in Keats's works. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" discuses the idea of immortality in a picture, and how if a moment is captured on an urn then does it exist

  • Immortality and Symbolism in John Keat's Nightingale Ode

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    is talking about. The nightingale is the poet s addressee but the poet s main issue is to express his love and attitude towards nature. John Keats, an English romantic poet is known for his odes. Of Keats s six major odes of 1819, Ode to Psyche is the first and Ode to autumn is the last one. Ode to...

  • John Keats’ ODE ON MELANCHOLY

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    ODE ON MELANCHOLY by John Keats is the one of six poems that make up THE GREAT ODES all of which he had written in 1918. In contrast to the other odes, Keats himself fails to appear in the poem creating a divide between poet, author and reader; he speaks directly to the audience rather than to an abstract object or emotion. In doing this, Keats draws upon the readers own personal experience, since everyone – at some point – has experienced melancholy. Keats offers his insight on the topic by presenting

  • Using ‘Ode on Melancholy’ and one other, examine how Keats uses language

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    Using ‘Ode on Melancholy’ and one other, examine how Keats uses language to explore his muses Keats In ‘Ode on Melancholy’ Keats accepts the truth he sees: joy and pain are inseparable and to experience joy fully we must experience sadness or melancholy fully. The first stanza urges us not to try and escape pain; stanza two tells us what to do instead - embrace the transient beauty and joy of the nature and human experience, which contain pain and death. Stanza three makes clear that

  • Beethoven Symphony 9 Essay

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    French horn and the trombones are being played. In the percussion family the bass drum, triangle and the cymbals are being played. Lastly, in the string family, violas and cellos were being played throughout the 4th movement of Ode to joy. In addition, the famous Ode of joy melody is a simple, folk-like song, that Beethoven worked on for approximately 20 years. The effects that the choir introduces that the theme is very intense. The sopranos, altos, bass and tenor gives a very powerful message. It

  • Ode On A Grecian Urn - Critical Analysis

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    fact, the tone of the poem is light and filled with joy. However, this is not the case in John Keats’s poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn. At first glance, the tone of the poem seems light and flowery. However, when one looks deeper into the poem to find its underlying meanings, one discovers that the tone of the poem is very morbid. This is because the poem has two separate levels. Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn has a superficial level of happiness and joy, which acts as a façade for a deeper level of morbidity

  • How Did Johannes Brahms Influence The Development Of Liberalism

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    In 1860, liberalism cultivated Vienna with its emerging Ringstrasse. A new generation of modern artists and musicians arose, promoting new views and ideas. This rise of liberalism was not only confined to Vienna, but also became a cultural movement that spread across the world. Well-known architects were commissioned to build up the rounded boulevard with a wide diversity of architecture. The architectural style of the Ringstrasse is historicism, meaning that the buildings mirror the varied architectural

  • Comparison: Ode to a Nightingale & Dover Beach

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    John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” and Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” were written at different times by very different men; yet their conclusions about the human condition are strikingly similar. A second generation Romantic, Keats’s language is lush and expressive, strongly focused on the poet as an individual; while Arnold, a Victorian in era and attitude, writes using simple language, and is focused on the world in a broader context. While Keats is a young man, struggling with the knowledge

  • The Literary Techniques Used to Evoke the World of Senses in Keats Odes

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    poetry in an assortment of ways. In the Odes of John Keats we are witness to an extensive use of literary techniques. Keats uses a variety of approaches in order to evoke the world of senses throughout his poetry. His Odes ‘on Indolence’ and ‘to Psyche’, ’a Nightingale’, ‘To Autumn’ and ‘Ode on Melancholy’ all demonstrate Keats amazing ability to arouse the senses of his readers with his diverse and vast use of literary and poetic techniques. In Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” we see the sense embodied

  • John Keats, Going against the grain: Changing perceptions of inspiration in music

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    ”To Autumn” is an ode written by John Keats on the 19th of September 1819. While walking near Winchester along a river, Keats became inspired to write the poem. The Rest of his other odes were completed in the spring of 1819. John died on the 23rd of February 1921 at the age of 25, just a year after the release of “To Autumn”. However, throughout his life he inspired many poets, but most notably Percy Shelly. In mourning, he wrote the elegy “Adonais” for Keats.”To Autumn “is his final poem and many

  • Ode to a Grecian Urn

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    Ode to a Grecian Urn In the early 19th century it was not unusual to make a work of art, painting or sculpture a subject of a poem. Taken literally, the poem 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' is a poem about a vase, but Keats has inverted the traditional understanding of physical, tangible objects and transformed them into metaphors for abstract concepts, such as truth and time. An urn is primarily used to preserve the ashes of the dead. The theme of the Ode, accordingly, has to do with the relationship

  • Analysis Of Keats's Ode To Melancholy Essay

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    Keats’s Ode to Melancholy is best described by one word, melancholy. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Melancholy as a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. In this poem, melancholy is the art of embracing sorrow and a sort of madness in order to be able to cherish the joy to truly live. Keats accomplished the idea of melancholy by using his imagery to reinforce the idea of sustaining opposites such as sorrow and joy in a person’s life. In the beginning of the poem, the