Ode is a poem written in 1874 by the English poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy. It is often referred to by its first line We are the music makers. Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the English as an ethnic group and nation. ... Arthur William Edgar OShaughnessy (March 14, 1844–January 30, 1881) was a British poet, born in London. ...

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Ode (O'Shaughnessy)

The Ode is the first poem in O'Shaughnessy's collection Music and Moonlight. It has nine stanzas, although many people to whom it is familiar believe that the poem is only three stanzas long. The opening stanza is: Image File history File links Wikisource-logo. ... The original Wikisource logo. ...

 We are the music makers,

And we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

And sitting by desolate streams;—

World-losers and world-forsakers,

On whom the pale moon gleams:

Yet we are the movers and shakers

Of the world for ever, it seems.

The words have inspired many people and have been admired by many poets, including W. B. Yeats^{[citation needed]}. They have been set to music, or alluded to, many times: William Butler Yeats, 1933 photograph, author unknown. ...

• Edward Elgar's The Music Makers, op.69, uses the entire poem.
• The Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály also made a setting.
• English folk singer Vikki Clayton set the first three stanzas as the title track from her 1997 album 'Movers and Shakers'. [1]
• The 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory quotes its first two lines, in this exchange:

Willy Wonka: "The strawberries taste like strawberries. The snozzberries taste like snozzberries."

Veruca Salt: "Snozzberries? Who ever heard of a snozzberry?"

Willy Wonka: "We are the music makers... and we are the dreamers of dreams."

• The opening line has been used as the title of an album by Joy Electric, a track of Selected Ambient Works 85-92, by Aphex Twin, Ultra-Sonic and the New York band We Are the Music Makers.

Sir Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. ... The Music Makers, op. ... Zoltán Kodály (IPA: ), (pronunciation, Zol-tan Kod-eye) (November 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... For other uses, see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (disambiguation). ... We Are The Music Makers, a power-trio from Brooklyn, New York. ... Joy Electric is a one-man electropop/synth pop group consisting of Ronnie Martin. ... Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (often abbreviated to SAW85-92) is an ambient techno album by Richard D. James, better known by his pseudonym of Aphex Twin. ... Richard D. James redirects here. ... We Are the Music Makers is a new prog quartet from Brooklyn, New York founded by Adam Castro and Michael Calabrese in 2005. ...

External links

• Full Text of Poem