Any poetry experts? Professors? Lecturers? Teachers? Poets?

Question

Would you say the following poems are monodies?
Adrienne Rich's:
-From A Survivor
Eavan Boland's:
-Outside History
-The Famine Road

and could the following be called odes?
Adrienne Rich's:
-Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
-Power
John Montague's:
-The Locket
-The Cage
-The Wild Dog Rose

Please, DON'T define the words for me. I know what they mean

Additional Details

aaaaah this is my second time asking this question and all the answers don't answer it.
I'm not writing a poem!
These are all written poems by famous poets. I just want to know if their 'genre' is an ode and a monody

Answer 1

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I wouldn't classify any of the poems you listed as monodies and i wouldn't classify either of the Rich poems you've listed as odes.

I disagree with the other answerer on "From a Survivor" because it focuses much more on the speaker and her overcoming of the dead person, really. Also, there isn't any outpouring of grief or despair the way there is, for instance, in Herman Melville's "Monody," which he wrote about Hawthorne's death. (A number of Melville's poems in Battle-Pieces would certainly qualify as odes, though.)

Since I couldn't find the Montague poems anywhere online, and it's been too long since I read him (1994!), I can't really say for sure about those. However, I don't ever remember reading anything of his that was especially elevated in language or tone or form. True, he uses form quite a bit, and almost always (if I remember correctly) rhyme, but other than that I can't say I remember reading anything of his that I would have considered an ode or even something close.

Oh, well. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

I think first of all you must make an attempt to write a poem, without bothering about all this odes and monodies.
Simply just feel from your heart and express your feelings and emotions by way of a lyrical and poetical form.
You just simply feel, see inwardly and write whatever comes to you !

Answer 3

I would class "From a survivor" as a monody.