Get Your Premium Membership

Less Taken With An Ode

Keats wrote an ode about an urn; I read to see what I could learn. Ah, happy, happy, here and there! More happy, happy, everywhere! But not much else could I discern; Like Greek to me, its beauty, lost. 'Tis said to Keats that much is owed, Ekphrastic images that flowed. Long cent'ries since, high praise still earned, Yet reading Keats, I found I yearned For yellow wood, divergent roads, Trips taken through an early Frost.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 9/22/2022 7:41:00 PM
100% agree, Sir Jeffrey. Romantic Poets course I took in college had to be THE MOST BORING CLASS EVER!
Login to Reply
Date: 9/22/2022 3:32:00 PM
wonderfully written, jeff! i especially love the ending...
Login to Reply
Date: 9/22/2022 10:33:00 AM
Jeff, you've done a wonderful job with this. Both the rhyme and the topic matter are highly appealing to me.
Login to Reply
Kyser Avatar
Jeff Kyser
Date: 9/22/2022 10:44:00 AM
Thanks very much! I've been trying to play with different rhyme schemes lately - they are interesting! Some of the old poets were a lot more creative than I am!
Date: 9/22/2022 10:23:00 AM
I couldn't agree more, Jeff. I find the "modern" poets easier to understand. They speak more cogently to my mind, but, it is true that were it not for the older poets, we might not be as developed, or inclined to poetry, as we are today. Good stuff, my friend. I would have called this "The Road Less Travelled To an Ode." LOL
Login to Reply
Kyser Avatar
Jeff Kyser
Date: 9/22/2022 10:45:00 AM
Thanks, Milt. Yeah, I often struggle with a title!

Book: Reflection on the Important Things