ode
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The song is an ode to life’s impressive lack of meaning.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
She immediately filed away the messy work-in-progress and began writing a fictional ode to a cherished friend, former publishing executive Jim Fox, to whom “Whistler” is dedicated.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
Mark Helprin’s bittersweet ode to Brooklyn, an intellectual romance between two devout souls, Elizabeth Strout’s novel of a midlife quest for meaning and more.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The anti-capitalist ode “Death To My Hometown” follows “Born In The USA,” and that leads into the band’s cover of the Clash’s “Clampdown.”
From Salon • May 28, 2026
Without the translation, the vuvv’s ode, its scratchy iambs and dactyls, sound like someone walking forcefully in corduroys.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing ode
Poetry: Genres
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