HUMA 2640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ode To The West Wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Terza Rima
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Written by percy bysshe shelley in 1819. One interpretation is that the speaker is expressing his inability to help those in england since he is in italy. Poem expresses hope that its words will inspire and influence those who read it. First 3 sections describes the wind"s effects upon earth, air, and ocean. Final 2 sections provide relation between wind and speaker. First 3 cantos end in oh hear . Tone of death, sinister in the first stanza. The speaker appeals to the west wind four times in this first canto, or section, of the poem. Lines 1-5 are the first appeal, in which the speaker describes the west wind as the breath of autumn. Like a magician banishing ghosts or evil spirits, the west wind sweeps away the dead leaves. These dead leaves are multicolored, but not beautiful in the way we usually think of autumn leaves their colors are weird and ominous and seem almost diseased (like.
