This poem adopted the popular ode style at that time. This theme originated from Pindar, an ancient Greek poet, and was used in the creation of German poets a long time ago, until He Delin, a famous ode poet in the 9th century. Klopp Caton was the most famous ode poet during the German Enlightenment. This man changed the dry and didactic style of enlightenment poetry and wrote a warm and noble ode, which was deeply loved by young people at that time. Poems praising the theme of joy were written before Schiller. Hatang of the Annacreon School of Poetry (also known as Locke) in Germany wrote a poem of the same name "Ode to Joy". But these two ode to joy are different: Hatton praises the happiness of this world, and Schiller praises the joy of being with God from the noble feelings of the world. Influenced by klopp Stark, Schiller's Ode to Joy has a solemn and lofty rhythm, while Hatang's Ode to Joy also sings joy in a serious tone, but with irony and criticism.
Schiller's praise of joy in Ode to Joy first praised the specific joy he was moved by friendship, and later personified this specific joy, making it universal, and then extended his pursuit of freedom, equality and fraternity, especially the praise of fraternity. "Wherever your gentle wings fly, people everywhere become brothers."