In Ode 1 the tone starts as reverence for man and his achievements, but in the last stanza, the tone changes to acknowledgement of man's limitations. The ode began by saying man is the greatest force on this earth, "Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man," (1). The diction of this first sentence helps set the tone with the repeating of the word "wonderful" emphasizes how man is the best. Also, the ode specifies that man is the most wonderful on earth because the gods in the clouds are the most powerful beings of all. The ode then goes on to say how man conquered all animals, "All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind," (9). The imagery of, "his blunt yoke has broken the sultry shoulders of the mountain bull,"
