Ode to Indolence

ODE TO INDOLENCE
What is an Ode? An Ode is a numbers giving praise to some champion or something of importance to you. Historical Background This ode was written in kick 1819, between mid-March and early June. On 19 March Keats wrote of his sort of control indolent in a letter to his brother George and sister-in-law Georgiana. And on 9 June, he told one Miss Jeffrey that the thing I dupe most enjoyed this year has been writing an ode to Indolence. The ode was first published in 1848. In the letter to George and Georgiana, Keats described his indolence: This is the only delight; and is a rare instance of advantage in the ashes overpowering the Mind. The ode itself is the least well known of the six striking odes of 1819. Most critics consider it the least accomplished of the group. The epigraph (a short idiom written as an introduction to part of a poem or book) is from Matthew 6:28. The Poem
They toil not, neither do they spin.





wiz morn before me were three figures gathern,
With bowed necks, and joined hands, side-faced;
And one behind the other steppd serene,
In placid sandals, and in whiteness robes graced:
They passd, like figures on a marble urn,
When shifted round to see the other side;
They came again; as when the urn once more
Is shifted round, the first seen shades return;
And they were strange to me, as whitethorn betide
With vases, to one deep in Phidian lore.
How is it, shadows, that I knew ye not?
How came ye muffled in so hush a masquerade party?
Was it a silent deep-disguised plot
to steal away, and leave without a task
My idle days? Ripe was the drowsy hour;
The blissful cloud of summer-indolence
Benumbd my eyes; my impulse grew less and less;
Pain had no sting, and pleasures wreath no flower.
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