0 a poem expressing the writer's thoughts and feelings about a particular person or subject, usually written to that person or subject: --
1 a poem that deals with thoughts and feelings about an idea or subject and that is written in lines and stanzas (= groups of lines) varying in length --
Yet with its acceptance of the numb, dull and indolent mood as something creative, it set the scene for all the odes that followed.
Lyrical poetry, odes, pastorals, elegies, epigrams; dramatic presentations of comedy and tragedy; histories, rhetorical treatises, philosophical dialectics, and philosophical treatises all arose in this period.
Literary forms varied, from ode, pastorals and sonnets to elegy, satire and romance.
The text has become an ode to liberalisation with one single aim in mind, namely to make competitive market forces the sole regulator of service provision.
That document is like a schoolboy ode.
This report is an ode to the free and undistorted competition that it holds up as an infallible remedy against the financial crisis.
As expected, it is also an ode to the privatisation of the pay-as-you-go pension system, which we all know to be effective.
Furthermore, obviously we do not propose to join in the ode to 'effective competition' contained in this resolution.
