Week 1: Ode, Elegy

ode- a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
elegy- a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

A little unsure of what an ode was I looked it up, so I got what I posted above. My selection is in the category of Medieval Lyric Poetry by Anonymous, with a subtitle of "Deo Gracias/Adam Lay Ibounden" (does that mean it is not anonymous if there is an author?)

I didn't feel like typing the poem out, so i searched for it on google and i found this instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DocrO_hRW2w

Its this group of singers who sing the poem, only its a little more repetative, ut all hte same stanzas are in it never the less.

The poem embodies the literary device of euphonys, which makes sense becasue it is able to be sung. A euphony appears to the ear to be smooth, pleasant, and musical. Deo Gracias has somehtign to do wiht thanks, (gracias) while deo is a conjugated verb which most likely is from dar, which means to give. This poem plays wiht the word "bound" (ibounden, bounden, bond) in the first stanza to really get the point accross of an attachment. The second stanza focuses of "appil", which really is an "apple" which symbolizes somethign forbidden, since this poem is biblicly (sp?) based the apple plays of Adam and Eve. In the third stanza it talks about "appil take ben" and "hadde never our lady" which emmulates hte adam and eve theme moreso.

I was drawn to this poem becasue I thought it emmulated the theme of an ode becasue of its lyricy, and i was happy i could find a song to go wiht it. The style it was written in was a little hard to understand, but nice none the less.