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In Ms. Garmus’s case, it yields an affecting ode to poetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
An ode to imperfect fruit: Tangerines that are a breeze to peel.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
For the team behind "Onwards and Sideways," the film was essentially an ode to life.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Just a few blocks from the original Beachcomber, Oehlers says he designed his bar as a modern ode to the McCadden Place locale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 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
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Instead of odes to the old cabin home in the mountains or the little church in the wildwood, Busby sang about the loneliness and alienation of life in the nation’s capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But the chorus of Theban citizens, whose odes interrupt the action at crucial points, makes clear that not only the ruling clan but the entire society is at stake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
The two songs tenor Ben Jones turned to, “Drift Off to Sleep” and “Answered Prayers,” were moving odes to melancholy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2025
Football "cannot be boosted by singing odes or telling stories", he noted.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025
I wrote more sonnets and odes to everything imaginable.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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Poetry: Genres
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