But ‘Oh Sister’ is, as its title suggests, an ode to a sister. Dylan directly addresses a “sister” in his lyrics, asking her not to place distance between them and to accept the love that exists ...

None of Olds’s odes so much as nods towards any of the masters of the ode in English. One of my cleverer students once identified an ode as a poem that begins with ‘O’ – as, for example, Shelley’s ...