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a poem so impressed by something it forgets to shut up
greek rootscomes from aeidein, meaning to sing aloud
pindar's flexancient odes praised athletes like modern sports anthems
keats bingewrote six legendary odes in a single 1819
strict shapesclassical odes followed strophe, antistrophe, and epode
open invitationcan glorify anything, even a grecian urn