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Ode vs Hommage - What's the difference?

ode | hommage |

As nouns the difference between ode and hommage

is that ode is sister while hommage is a homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.

ode

English

(wikipedia ode)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
    • Ode on a Grecian Urn —Keats

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    hommage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A homage, especially something in an artwork which has been done in respectful imitation of another artist.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=November 29, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=His Master's Vice, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=There's a clip from his Pickup on South Street in Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and extended hommages to other Fuller films in Godard's Breathless and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.) }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2002, title=Guido Cavalcanti, author=Maria Luisa Ardizzone, page=150, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=53XLa_9fq_sC&pg=PA150
    • , passage=It is certainly true that Pound wanted to pay hommage to Guido. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 30, author=Anthony Tommasini, title=Doing Everything but Playing the Music, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once. }}

    See also

    * (Hommage)

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