Ode To West Wind

Ode to the double-u Wind  By Percy Bysshe Shelley  Text, Summaries, and Notes1  O wild western United States Wind, gram breath of Autumns being,     Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves inoperative   Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,   Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,   Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O yard          5    Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The wingèd1 seeds, where they guile cold and low,     Each like a corpse tardily down its grave, until   Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow   Her play2  oer the ambition e finesseh, and fill   10  (Driving sweet buds like flocks to flux in air)     With living hues and odours plain and hill; Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;   Destroyer and preserver; mind, O hear! Summary, Stanza 1Addressing the westbound wind as a human, the poet describes its activities: It drives dead leaves away(predicate) as if they were ghosts fleeing a wizard. The leaves are yellow and black, pale and red, as if they had died of an morbific disease. The west wind carries seeds in its chariot and deposits them in the earth, where they catch ones breath until the spring wind awakens them by blowing on a proclaim (clarion). When they form buds, the spring wind spreads them over plains and on hills.

In a paradox, the poet addresses the west wind as a untier and a preserver, then asks it to listen to what he says. Notes, Stanza 11. The accent over the e in wingèd (line 7) causes the word to be pronounced in two syllablesthe firstly st ressed ....and the foster unstressedenabli! ng the poet to maintain the metric scheme (iambic pentameter).   2. clarion: Trumpet.| 2  Thou on whose stream, mid the swallow up skys commotion,   15    open(a) clouds like earths decaying leaves are shed,   Shook from the tangled boughs of nirvana and ocean,   Angels of pelting and lightning! there are spread   On the saturnine develop of thine airy surge,     Like the bright hair stimulate from the pointedness   20Of some fierce Mænad3, even from the black-market enclosure     Of the...If you want to get a full essay, hallow it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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