Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7316

The Ode

What is meant by an ode? Is it another name for an invocation?

No. It is a lyrical poem of some length on a single subject e.g. the Skylark (Shelley), Autumn (Keats), the Nativity (Birth of Christ) (Milton) working out a description or central idea on the subject.

14 June 1937