The word "ode" is a correct and usable word in written English
Generally, an ode is a type of lyrical poem that celebrates or honors a person, place, or event. One example of an ode is Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood."
Now it's Max Frost's addictive, frantic ode to relationship paranoiaWhite Lies at 42. Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 4.48pm AEST05:48 Very far from Sweden, nudity seems to be occuring.
One of the show's stars, Peter Dinklage, performed an ode to his own survival on the bloodthirsty drama called Still Going Strong, while actor Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, sang a reggae anthem called Rastafarian Targaryen.
It's an ode to joyless sex, hard-won after a war of attrition.
It is an ode to the countries of that sensational Commonwealth Games, asking which of them came crawling back to England once they got their independence.
She could include interviews, a diagram of female reproductive organs, an ode to alternative sanitary products.
And there's no better ode to this magical time than a very short book by American historian Bernard DeVoto, called The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto.
I wouldn't have minded so much if any of these men had written poetry to match their levels of dastardliness; but one night they'd tell you their marriage was a sham for complicated reasons to do with the electoral register, and the next morning they'd be back in their marital homes, ready to pen another ode to the murmurations of starlings in Suffolk.
Not only do the tracks from new album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action slot seamlessly into this exuberant canon, some of them could've been written especially for the event: Stand On The Horizon, an ode to the romance of unreachable distances, is full of North Sea references and Evil Eye even contains a knowing West Coast synth whine as an (unintentional) nod to Snoop.
My personal favourite was our ode to the man who would soon become the nation's poet laureate.
These days, we might giggle at these kitschy Big Things, but these outsize odes to local industry, lovingly fashioned out of chicken wire and cement, had a role to play.
He has that rare gift of being able to accuse America of every sin under the sun from imperialism to profiteering while at the same time proclaiming that it is the best damn country in the world.Mr Springsteen's past odes to blue-collar America were as bleak as rock music gets.
