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    Ode to the West Wind The poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley refers to the wind 4 times in the first section of the poem, although we do not know until the very end of the first section why and what he wants from the wind. In order to gain the Winds trust and confidence, the speaker comes up with a couple examples of what the wind did in the past and is capable of. Like driving away the autumn leaves, placing seeds in the earth, bringing thunderstorms and the "death" of the natural world, and stirring up

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    Theme :- Inspiration in “Ode to the West Wind'; “When composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline'; - P. B. Shelley      Shelley deals with the theme of inspiration in much of his work. However it is particularly apparent in ‘Ode to the West Wind’ where the wind is the source of his creativity. The cycles of death and rebirth are examined in an historical context with reference to The Bible. The word inspiration has

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    Ode to the West Wind Explication Percy Bysse Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind is a dramatization of man’s useless and “dead thoughts” (63) and Shelley’s desire from the Autumn wind to drive these “over the universe” (65) so that not only he but man can start anew. The thoughts are first compared to the leaves of trees but as the poem progresses the thoughts are paralleled with the clouds and finally the “sapless foliage of the ocean” (40). Shelley personifies himself with the seasons of the Earth and

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley called Ode to the West Wind. Before I jump into the poem itself I found some noteworthy things about Shelley. Hughes (1918) says that for Shelley nature was extraordinary. We know that he was not a poet who sat inside looking at nature and saying how beautiful it is. He actually went out

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    Title:Ode to the West Wind Author : Percy Shelley I read this poem last week .It only took me about 15 miniutes.But I will take a long time to keep it in my mind forerver. Brief summary: The West Wind acts as a force for change and forward movement in the human and natural world. Shelley sees winter not just as the last season of vegetation but as the last phase of life. Shelley observes the changing of the weather from autumn to winter and its effects on the environment. Shelley is trying to

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    "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley invokes Zephyrus, the west wind, to free his "dead thoughts" and words, "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63, 66-67), in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity, "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode, one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama, "Prometheus Unbound," identifies Shelley with his heroic, tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven, Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment,

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    "Ode to the West Wind" Essay

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    The wind is one of the most powerful forces known to man. It can do things that man has been envious of and also terrified of throughout the centuries. It is no wonder why Shelley decided to write a poem of praise in its name. Shelley writes this poem with the speaker being a poet himself frustrated that he can not tell the world the things that he feels the world needs to know. Throughout the poem he continually is describing what the wind can do and what he wishes the wind could do for him. It

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    The Wind Image in the Eolian Harp and Ode to the West Wind Melike Basın Akdeniz University IDE 405 PhD Assistant Professor H. Sezgi Saraç December 11, 2017 The Wind Image in the Eolian Harp and Ode to the West Wind Romanticism is a literary and artistic movement which takes its inspiration from nature and creates a new perception of the world. Seeking for the essence of the nature made Romantic poets more related to the essence of the human being and its natural existence in the universe

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    Philosophical Poem. Shelley was in love with Goodwill and Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter, Mary, and in 1814 they eloped to Europe. He was one of the epic poets of the 19th century. He the best known for classic anthology verse works such as Ode to the West Wind and

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    “Ode to the West Wind” and John Keats’ “To Autumn” are fixated on nature. Shelley addresses nature in majority of his poems climatically, according to his spontaneous and momentary response, while Keats turns to contemplation due to his personal suffering. Both poets are impacted by the seasonal process in nature which ushers them into the temperament of transition and aging. However, both of them differently perceive the same natural manifestations. In Percy Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” considers

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