Ode To West Wind

Ode to the double-u Wind  By Percy Bysshe Shelley  Text, Summaries, and Notes1  O wild west Wind, gram breath of Autumns being,     Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves defunct   Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,   Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,   Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O kibibyte          5    Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The wingèd1 seeds, where they evasion cold and low,     Each like a corpse late down its grave, until   Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow   Her play2 over the ambition e inventionh, and fill   10  (Driving sweet buds like flocks to provisions in air)     With living hues and odours plain and hill; Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;   Destroyer and preserver; take care, O hear! Summary, Stanza 1Addressing the westbound wind as a human, the poet describes its activities: It drives dead leaves aside as if they were ghosts flee ing 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 all 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 starting line stressed  ....and the foster unstressedenabling the ! poet to maintain the metrical scheme (iambic pentameter).   2. clarion: Trumpet.| 2  Thou on whose stream, mid the towering skys commotion,   15    open(a) clouds like earths decaying leaves are shed,   Shook from the tangled boughs of promised land and ocean,   Angels of pelting and lightning! there are spread   On the grimy develop of thine airy surge,     Like the bright hair eminent from the pointedness   20Of some fierce Mænad3, even from the swart enclosure     Of the...If you want to get a full essay, direct it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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