SHORT SUMMARY OF "ODE TO PSYCHE" BY JOHN KEATS



Short and Simple Paraphrasing of John Keats

  "Ode to Psyche".

The speaker starts the poem with an address to the goddess Psyche, requesting her to hear his words, and asking that she must forgive him because he is about to sing her secrets. He says that while moving in the forest one day, he saw two fair creatures lying side by side in the grass, beneath a roof made of leaves, surrounded by flowers. They embrace one another with both their arms and wings, and though their lips did not touch, but they were close to one another. The speaker says he knew the winged boy, but asks who the girl was. He answers his own question and tells that She was Psyche.
Next, he calls Psyche again, describing her as the youngest and most beautiful of all the Olympian gods and goddesses. He believes this, he says, despite the fact that, unlike other god and goddesses, Psyche has not even a single place of worship. She has no temples, no altars, no singers to sing for her, and so on. Next, he says that all this has happened because she has arrived late. She has come into the world very late. But he says that even in this time, he would like to pay homage to Psyche and will become her singer, her music, and her oracle. He continues with these declarations, saying he will become Psyche’s priest and build her a temple on a place where no one has ever walked in his own mind, a region surrounded by thought that resemble the beauty of nature or imagination. He promises Psyche by saying that the window of her new home will be left open at night, so that her winged boy and her Lover can come in at every night to meet her.


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