page_title: Palinode
hierarchical_section_title: Palinode
caption_attribution_description: Geoffrey Chaucer re: .png below: chaucer image from the meta-wikipedia. I reuploaded this as a .png; it was a .gif with an incorrect extension. I also dropped it to 18 colors, the # actually being used, to make the file smaller. I don't know who uploaded it to meta; I moved it over in Nov. 2002 as a result of no longer displaying off-site images as a result of the goatse vandal. Koyaanis Qatsi 18:16 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)
context_page_description: A palinode or palinody is an ode in which the writer retracts a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem. The first recorded use of a palinode is in a poem by Stesichorus in the 7th century BC, in which he retracts his earlier statement that the Trojan War was all the fault of Helen.
  An important example of a palinode is that of Socrates in the Phaedrus in which his first major speech disparages the "mania" of Eros and its part in human affairs, while his second one praises Eros. As he says, "we must not let anyone disturb us or frighten us with the claim that you should prefer a friend who is in control of himself to one who is disturbed. Besides proving that point, if [the lover of speeches] is to win his case, our opponent must show that love is not sent by the gods as a benefit to a lover and his boy. And we, for our part, must prove the opposite, that this sort of madness is given us by the gods to ensure our greatest good fortune. It will be a proof that convinces the wise if not the clever."
  The word comes from the Greek παλινῳδία from πάλιν and ᾠδή; the Latin-derived equivalent "recantation" is an exact calque.
context_section_description: A palinode or palinody is an ode in which the writer retracts a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem. The first recorded use of a palinode is in a poem by Stesichorus in the 7th century BC, in which he retracts his earlier statement that the Trojan War was all the fault of Helen.
  An important example of a palinode is that of Socrates in the Phaedrus in which his first major speech disparages the "mania" of Eros and its part in human affairs, while his second one (commonly known as the palinode of Socrates) praises Eros. As he says, "we must not let anyone disturb us or frighten us with the claim that you should prefer a friend who is in control of himself to one who is disturbed. Besides proving that point, if [the lover of speeches] is to win his case, our opponent must show that love is not sent by the gods as a benefit to a lover and his boy. And we, for our part, must prove the opposite, that this sort of madness is given us by the gods to ensure our greatest good fortune. It will be a proof that convinces the wise if not the clever."
  The word comes from the Greek παλινῳδία from πάλιν (palin, meaning 'back' or 'again') and ᾠδή ("song"); the Latin-derived equivalent "recantation" is an exact calque (re- meaning 'back or 'again' and cant- meaning 'sing').
  It can also be a recantation of a defamatory statement in Scots Law.
caption: Geoffrey Chaucer was an exponent of the palinode
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