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Ode on Melancholy - Coggle Diagram
Ode on Melancholy
Summary
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Stanza 3
you should aim to overwhelm yourself with joy until it reveals is center of sadness, then you'll no longer be sad
makes it clear for the readers that in order to experience joy we must experience the sorrow that beauty dies, joy evaporates
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Stanza 1
using mythological reference to convey that the sufferer should do everything he can to remain aware of and alert to the depths of his suffering
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General
how to cope with sadness
the more intensely we feel happiness, the more subject we are to melancholy
unless we immerse ourselves in process, our sensitivity to life and our ability to experience life fully will be deadened
Themes
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for the first time in the odes, the speaker urges action rather than passive contemplation
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Form
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the whole poem
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logical, argumentative and thematic structure
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Analysis
Stanza 2
the possible intensity, unpredictability, and inescapableness of melancholy
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Stanza 3
beauty dies, when we are experiencing joy, it is brief
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