Ode to Psyche

Poetry | John Keats

Write a short note on Psyche.

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Psyche Or write a short note on Psyche In John Keats s - poem Ode to Psyche Psyche is shown as the goddess of the soul She is a gentle and lovely figure from Greek mythology Keats sees her in a dream He feels pity and love for her forgotten beauty Psyche as a Forgotten Goddess Psyche was not worshipped like other goddesses of Olympus Keats calls her O latest born and loveliest vision far She came too late to receive temples and prayers The poet says sadly that she has No shrine no grove no oracle Through these words he shows her loneliness She is gentle but ignored Keats feels it is unfair that such a pure soul was forgotten by men Psyche s Beauty and Love with Cupid Keats sees Psyche and Cupid together in a dream He describes them lying side by side in a quiet peaceful

forest The place is calm full of soft wind flowers and a gentle stream Psyche rests beside Cupid who is a winged boy and the god of love Their love is pure calm and full of peace It joins love and soul together as one The poet feels great joy and tenderness while watching their holy union Psyche as the Goddess of Imagination and the Soul Keats wants to give Psyche the temple she never had He says Yes I will be thy priest and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind This means he will worship her in his imagination His mind becomes her temple He fills it with beautiful things like buds bells and countless unnamed stars Psyche becomes a symbol of the creative soul and divine beauty Psyche in Ode to Psyche is not only a goddess but also a spirit of love imagination and purity Through her Keats shows that real worship lives in the heart and mind not in temples of stone

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