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An ode functions through elaborate language to bring attention to a moment or a person glorifying either as a means of not only paying homage, but also as an attempt to immortalize the subject. In Jann Rosen-Queralt’s photographic series: "A Sparrow on the Floor of a Cathedral," one can argue that the series stands as an ode to the seabed. Interestingly her series, follows the ideas of the formation of an ode as the series is set into sections, and where they may not be ‘exactly’ what critics would identify as “Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode” - the captured scenes do turn our …