| Nowhere in the play do readership issues come to the fore more strikingly than in the five choral odes. |
| The first six odes of Book 3 are sometimes referred to as the Roman Odes, written in stately alcaics in elevated style on patriotic themes. |
| These ominous odes rumble like the storm clouds before the apocalypse and will have you laughing and crying at the same time. |
| Meanwhile soldier poets wrote odes and sapphics based on dead forms borrowed from the Greeks while laying plans to translate the Aeneid. |
| Their latest CD, Beach Blanket Bedlam, packs a punch with high-energy, oddball odes to sand fleas and doomed hoodlums. |
| These falsetto-led odes to love and innocence requiring precise singing were born on street corners among gangs of toughs. |
