Ode on Indolence Themes

The speaker of "Ode on Indolence" loves to sleep with his head in the grass. In the poem, he spends a good amount of time praising the joys of a lazy day spent in nature. He'd rather sleep under a...

Everyone has dreams and hopes for their future. The speaker of "Ode on Indolence" is a poet, and poets usually want others to read their work. They may also want fame and fortune, or at least a goo...

In "Ode on Indolence," love appears to the speaker first, and it appears as a lovely young woman. She holds the hands of Ambition and Poesy but doesn't seem to torment the speaker as much as the ot...

Ah, indolence—the speaker loves to be idle so much that he spends six stanzas praising the… well, nothingness of doing nothing. But is it real pleasure that the speaker takes in laziness, or is...