Ode
In the Greek Literature, a ode , of the Greek ωδή (song), is a lyric poem in Strophe S, accompanied by music. By extension, an ode is a poem celebrating a character or event: a winner of the Olympic Games for example. It is a raised kind, the poetic equivalent of the epopee.
Horace, Latin poet, also practiced this kind, on a minor mode (poems of low inspiration)
Ronsard, applying to the letter the program fixed by the Pleiad in the Defense and illustration of the French language, translated/adapted Pindare and Horace in its Odes.
This kind was then illustrated by Malherbe, then by Victor Hugo in his Odes and Ballades . At the beginning of the 20th century, one assists has a revival of the kind under the feather of Claudel, in Five Great Odes , delivers which opened the way with modern poetry.
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