Ordinary people & ordinary things.
The contemporary ode is not tasked with blind celebration, but rather with an inquiry.
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Poets have created new ways of writing odes to people, often choosing to privilege their subject rather than celebrate it.
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In which the speaker not only celebrates but negotiates the relationship between the subject and the self.