"English poet John Keats composed five odes in 1819: The ""Ode on Indolence"", ""Ode on Melancholy"", ""Ode to a Nightingale"", ""Ode to Psyche"" and which other?"
Ode on Indolence candour that he restricted their imaginative power. His identity had prevailed." Ode on Indolence The "Ode on Indolence" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819. The others were "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode to Psyche". The poem describes the state of indolence, a word which is synonymous with "avoidance" or "laziness". The work was written during a time when Keats was presumably more than usually occupied with his material prospects. After finishing the spring poems, Keats wrote in June 1819 that its
Ode on Melancholy bursting forth from a burst grape, and the beginning of a decline. In "The Masks of Keats", Thomas McFarland suggests that Keats's beautiful words and images attempt to combine the non-beautiful subject of melancholy with the beauty inherent in the form of the ode. He too writes that the images of the bursting grape and the "globèd peonies" show an intention by the poet to bring the subject of sexuality into the discussion on melancholy. Ode on Melancholy "Ode on Melancholy" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819, along with "Ode