Sonnets, Jintishi, Villanelle, Ruba’i, Sijo and Sestina Ode, Ghazal, Pantoum, Rondeau, Haiku, Ghazal and Tanka Lots of poetic forms Which one is your top choice?
And of course, we have the Iranian mystic poet Rumi imploring us in ode after ode to get drunk and out of our minds so we can become blissfully present in the wow of now.
Of " Maybe I'm Amazed" , usually interpreted as an ode to Linda, his first wife, he insists that: " Starting with myself, the characters who appear in my songs are imagined."
One of the animation's highlights is a magnificent dance that is inspired by the Flying Apsaras images in Dunhuang Grottoes and ancient Chinese poet Cao Zhi's poem " The Ode to the Goddess of the River Luo."
But the odes of Keats and of Wordsworth, a poem or two by Coleridge, a few more by Shelley, discovered vast realms of the spirit that none had explored before.
The country-inflected " Massachusetts" is a tongue-incheek ode to America's 15th-most-populous state (it angered some Bay Staters by suggesting that they were homophobic).