LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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Psyche
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Cupid
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The author of the poem
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Shelley’s childhood self
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Ode to Psyche” is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819.
Detailed explanation-2: -Keats’s speaker opens the poem with an address to the goddess Psyche, urging her to hear his words, and asking that she forgive him for singing to her her own secrets.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Ode to Psyche” is the first of a group of odes which Keats composed in April and May 1819. It is one of Keats’ best and most significant poems, but it has not gained the interest of readers in the way that his famous “Ode on a Grecian Urn” or “Ode to a Nightingale” have.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ode to Psyche, one of the earliest and best-known odes by John Keats, published in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). Based on the myth of Psyche, a mortal who weds the god Cupid, this four-stanza poem is an allegorical meditation upon the nature of love.
Detailed explanation-5: -The critic Harold Bloom suggests that that Psyche symbolizes the human-soul-in-love; hers is a love story, her lover Cupid is the god of love, his mother is the goddess of love, the poet encounters Psyche and Cupid between kisses, and the last line of the poem welcomes love.