as in poem
a composition in verse in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something
This poem is titled, "An Ode to My Mother."
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Recent Examples of ode
As a finishing touch, the bathroom features allover orange—in lighting, walls, and decor—as an ode to the owners’ favorite color.
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Annabelle Dufraigne,
Architectural Digest,
10 June 2026
Maman Zari, the Persian tasting menu restaurant in Albany Park that was an elegant ode to an Iranian grandmother, closed permanently on June 6.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
In a 2024 birthday ode to DeGeneres, Jenner highlighted all her friend's many talents and quirks.
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Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
Some holes will feature odes to the historic Stockyards, Sundance Square, Panther City and the Fort Worth Courthouse.
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Ella Gonzales
june 4,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2026
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Annabelle Dufraigne,
Architectural Digest,
10 June 2026
Maman Zari, the Persian tasting menu restaurant in Albany Park that was an elegant ode to an Iranian grandmother, closed permanently on June 6.
—
Louisa Kung Liu Chu,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2026
In a 2024 birthday ode to DeGeneres, Jenner highlighted all her friend's many talents and quirks.
—
Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
Some holes will feature odes to the historic Stockyards, Sundance Square, Panther City and the Fort Worth Courthouse.
—
Ella Gonzales
june 4,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ode
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The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.
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The poems explore themes of loss, identity, artmaking and the natural world, as well as the 1885 expulsion of Chinese immigrants from Eureka, California.
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Performance That Relies On Deep Institutional Reasoning Frontier models are extraordinary at problems that are truly novel, ambiguous and wide—writing sonnets, solving math olympiad problems, debugging Python code.
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In his gorgeous and arresting debut, Nick Martino hurtles through a variety of forms—from sonnets to visual poems to works of visual art—to vividly portray and reflect on a teenager’s world during and after the speaker’s parents’ divorce and his father’s incarceration.
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The event will culminate Saturday with a performance by Common, whose career has been defined by socially conscious lyrics, storytelling and advocacy.
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The band says that the themes and lyrics of Book of Love reflected their lives and experiences in New York City during that period in the 1980s.
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The rhyme references a viral chant that has taken the internet by storm during the NBA Finals in which the Knicks are currently up 3-1 against the San Antonio Spurs.
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It's got a lot going on, but there's a reason to every rhyme.
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His one big lament was missing a 4-foot birdie putt on the final hole.
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This week, Tyla gets in her feelings, Tierra Whack spits bars on a spritely beat, and Kelela slows it down on a lover’s lament that dates back to her debut album.
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Your epic on Che Guevara was your most sprawling exercise in storytelling, spanning two movies.
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Like the historic epic, full of ups and downs, tragedy and hope, the tale never ends.
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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That realization led him to a collection of honky-tonk stompers, highway ballads and intimate character studies.
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The slow-burn thriller is partially based on a 17th century ballad in which the heroic outlaw’s cousin, a malevolent prioress, bleeds the older, ailing Robin to death under the guise of the ancient medical treatment known as bloodletting.
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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