Both Uses
ode
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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- Jalil told her the story of Queen Gauhar Shad, who had raised the famous minarets as her loving ode to Herat back in the fifteenth century.†
p. 4.9 *
- And then, from the darkened spirals of her memory, rise two lines of poetry, Babi's farewell ode to Kabul: One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her —walls.†
p. 392.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(ode) a poem about a person or thing that is addressed to that person or thing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)