WRITING ODES
The materials below are supplementary to the video produced by the writer Diane Kendig at the Arts in Stark Facebook page to delight and instruct during the COVID19 slowdown.
As a thank you for your attendance today, I am attaching a broadsides of two of my odes for you to download. You can right click on it to save and print out on your printer:
Week three, I will be showing you the tradition of broadsides and how you can make your own
Notes on and examples of the ode
For children:
Houston Writers in the Schools
For older students (high school, college, Moms & Dads)
"Ode" at the Academy of American Poetry
John Keats, "Ode to a Nightengale"
For everyone
Quincy Troupe's poem, "A Poem for Magic" (on Magic Johnson)
read by the poet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da9jVVUGPhA
Pablo Neruda odes
"The Watermelon" (in Spanish, "Oda a la Sandia")
"Ode to My Socks"
Example odes by children
By Ohio kids:
ODE TO A DEER I HAVE NOT SEEN
O, I’m wishing,
hoping
waiting to see
the light, soft deer
I’m wanting,
needing
waiting to spot
the sweet cute face.
I’m thinking,
imaginating
waiting to see
the furry doe
as cute as a teddy
bear
O, I’m wishing,
hoping
waiting to spot
the deer in the
forest.
-- Fifth Grader
ODE TO PANDAS
Pandas, you are
very cool
and you
like to
eat bamboo
and
like to
climb trees
and live in
the mountain.
You are
soft as
a marshmallow.
I love
I love
Pandas.
--Third Grader
ODE TO POINTE SHOES
You are pretty and pink as a tourmaline
The ribbons you have, so smooth and silky
The way you make my feet look pretty when I go up on pointe
You are inexplicable-- how great and wonderful you are
Your look of delicacy makes me grateful, but you are strong
Thought you rip and tear when I wear you a lot
You glittered and glistened when I first got you
When I am on stage you help me dance like a prima ballerina.
--Fifth Grader
ODE TO THE BELL
Oh bell, hurry up
Go ring, ring ring
I like your sound
And you look like a party hat
You feel like a steel plate
Oh, bell, hurry up
--Third Grader
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TWO FINAL NOTES:
1) I usually like to write in silence, but if you like music, considered listening to this inspiring version of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," yet another kind of ode. This version is exciting because it comes to us from Europe, which is living through the virus also. The musicians could not get together to perform as usual, so they each play their part from home and technicians put it all together. You can see them as they play from home, making inspiring music together:
https://slippedisc.com/2020/03/believe-it-orchestra-plays-beethoven-9th-from-their-homes/
2) If you write an ode you are especially proud of and want to share, send it to me at dianekendig(at)gmail(dot)com [use @ for "at" and . for "dot). I will post and/or respond to as many odes as possible, so keep watching here for yours!
1) I usually like to write in silence, but if you like music, considered listening to this inspiring version of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," yet another kind of ode. This version is exciting because it comes to us from Europe, which is living through the virus also. The musicians could not get together to perform as usual, so they each play their part from home and technicians put it all together. You can see them as they play from home, making inspiring music together:
https://slippedisc.com/2020/03/believe-it-orchestra-plays-beethoven-9th-from-their-homes/
2) If you write an ode you are especially proud of and want to share, send it to me at dianekendig(at)gmail(dot)com [use @ for "at" and . for "dot). I will post and/or respond to as many odes as possible, so keep watching here for yours!
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