ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Ode to Psyche” is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes, which include “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a Nightingale". “Ode to Psyche” is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats’s attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “Ode to Psyche” is a poem about young, warm Keatsian love, much like that in The Eve of St. Agnes. In addition to what the “Ode to Psyche” reveals to the reader about Keats, the poem contains an abundance of imagery felicitously phrased.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -John Keats was an English Romantic lyric poet whose verse is known for its vivid imagery and great sensuous appeal. His reputation grew after his early death, and he was greatly admired in the Victorian Age.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the first stanza, every line is written in iambic pentameter except lines 12, 21, and 23 (the first two are trimeter, the last dimeter). The full rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFGEEGH IIJJ KIKI.