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The fairly simple theme, harmony and rhythm m aka tit poem for the common person. The poem is divided into eight stanzas and the rhyme e scheme being used is backed. Rhythm is created by combination of assonance and consonance. The author uses figurative language, imagery and metaphor to d scribe the euphoric feeling. “Ode to joy”‘ starts with apostrophe “O friends” (1) where the author urges his friends to sing more pleasant sounds, and uses it again in line four: “O joy’ asking joy, as if it were a person, if they might praise her, employing personification.
In the second stanza he keeps addressing joy, praising and adoring her SSI g personification, imagery, simile as well as abstract and figurative language. H e recognizes joy as a source of immortality and calls it “daughter of Elysium”, a place of per effect happiness of which Joy is the daughter. “Of thy radiant shrine we come” (8) De scribes joy enveloping us with its splendor. It can miraculously set people free from their rigid traditions, devoid of happiness. People in the world are brothers “In the have n of your wings” (1 2), a metaphor implying that by embracing joy, men will feel love for the whole mankind.
In the third stanza the author emphasizes the importance of a strong friend ship and a loving marriage. Men fortunate enough to have both shall sing this powerful s Eng. On the other hand, anyone who denies to have a heart should go and cry alone. In the fifth stanza we can find alliteration when Schaller uses ‘s’ sound ( strait get, creatures, earth’s, breast, things, nature’s, blessed, feels, springs, madness), a ND euphony, making words sound musical. We can find more metaphors, conceit and personification in this passage. “Joy is drunk by all .. Trait from earth’s .. Re sat”, the first 2 two, as well as the last two lines “From the worm that feels springs madness to the angel near G’s throng’ convey the belief that joy, the universal emotion originating from Go is available to all mankind. The proof of His love is found in nature’s good things , such as the fruit of the vine ” Joy gives love and wine” (25). In the fifths stanza the author is calling his fellow men to to run with excite meet in their eyes as happy heroes, glad as suns orbiting in a magnificent way through “the e deep and guzzling skies” (30), employing simile.
The ideal Of human brotherhood is expire seed here by referring to the other men as “brothers”. In the last stanza Sheller addresses the humankind once again, encouraging g them to get together and share the kiss to the entire world” meaning that Joy will embrace e everyone. The conclusion of the poem is a reminder about the existence of a loving cream tort who is “smiling in a heaven of bliss” (43). Here the author uses abstraction and peers unification 3 and goes on to wonder if people are even aware of the creator, and do they a appreciate all that he created with love.