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Episode 42 - The Shakespeare Beat Is Back – Keatsian Odes
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In this second episode from my latest book High Five! The William Shakespeare Beat is Back I’ll offer examples of what can happen when you revive the 5-beat line (and ONE, and TWO, and THREE, and FOUR, and FIVE) that the world’s greatest verse writer used in all his plays. Reviving Shakespeare, you also revive Keats, whose six great odes are mostly in iambic pentameter, as well. I wrote a half dozen original odes to emulate those of Keats, and then I wrote another 7 to prove it wasn’t just luck. Here I’ll give you samples from both groups.
First, for context, the opening stanza of Keats’ most famous poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (p. 30 of my book).
Then, the samples. From Group One:
362 (1) Ode on Weather Theater
363 (2) Ode on Verse Pedagogy
367 (6) Ode on Words New-Wrought
From Group Two:
376 (2) Ode on a Shmurah Matzah
377 (3) Ode on Dead Languages
380 (6) Ode to a Cup
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