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Mr. Young’s “Midnight on the Bay” is an ode to kicking back in the Florida Keys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
An ode to imperfect fruit: Tangerines that are a breeze to peel.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
For the team behind "Onwards and Sideways," the film was essentially an ode to life.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Parton was about six years old when she wrote her first song: Little Tiny Tasseltop, an ode to her favourite doll and its corn-silk hair.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Without the translation, the vuvv’s ode, its scratchy iambs and dactyls, sound like someone walking forcefully in corduroys.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
Indiana is in many ways a liminal state, the place you pass through between scruffy Cleveland and business-like Chicago, with little to inspire romantic odes to home.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Throughout this show, artists of all nationalities celebrate their homelands’ traditions and cultures, though there is a slightly elegiac air to these odes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
The chapters are arranged like the bayts, or couplets, of a ghazal, and they describe a succession of infatuations, some romantic and some purely poetic, as in the odes to the 14th-century Persian lyricist Hafez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Football "cannot be boosted by singing odes or telling stories", he noted.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025
It is the subject of one of his most famous odes, written in the first half of the fifth century.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Poetry: Genres
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