By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Bird thou never wert,

That from Heaven, or near it,

Pourest thy full heart

In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Higher still and higher

From the earth thou springest

Like a cloud of fire;

The blue deep thou wingest,

And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

In the golden lightning

Of the sunken sun,

O'er which clouds are bright'ning,

Thou dost float and run;

Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

1

Select the correct answer.

Why is the poem "Ode to a Skylark" an example of a Horatian ode?

A.

because its stanzas are of uniform length

B.

because it is filled with figurative language

C.

because it is filled with references to myths

D.

because it pays tribute to the figure of the skylark

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Callie Freeman

22 May, 18:42

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Bird thou never wert,

That from Heaven, or near it,

Pourest thy full heart

In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Higher still and higher

From the earth thou springest

Like a cloud of fire;

The blue deep thou wingest,

And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

In the golden lightning

Of the sunken sun,

O'er which clouds are bright'ning,

Thou dost float and run;

Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

1

Select the correct answer.

Why is the poem "Ode to a Skylark" an example of a Horatian ode?

A.

because its stanzas are of uniform length

B.

because it is filled with figurative language

C.

because it is filled with references to myths

D.

because it pays tribute to the figure of the skylark

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Keira Kaiser · Answer 1

A. because its stanzas are of uniform length

Marilyn Chavez · Answer 2

Answer: D

An ode is a poem composed to praise a particular person or

thing.

Explanation: I

its Lyrical

Pays Tribute to 1 thing

Horatian ode, short lyric poem written in stanzas of two or four lines in the manner of the 1st-century-bc Latin poet Horace ... Horace's tone is generally serious and serene, often touched with irony and melancholy but sometimes with gentle humour.