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        <title><![CDATA[can i have the explanation of each and every line of this poem please?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[can i have the explanation of each and every line of this poem please?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can I have an explanation of the following lines?
Oh, lift me as a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can I have an explanation of the following lines?
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:10:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shelley composed  the "Ode to the West Wind" while in Florence, Italy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shelley composed  the "Ode to the West Wind" while in Florence, Italy in the year 1819. It was published in the year 1820. The gist of the poem is that Shelley considers himself as a poet prophet campaigning for reform and revolution using the "wild west wind" to destroy everything that is old and defunct and plant new and progressive, liberal and democratic ideals in its stead. The poem describes a storm arising in the autumn season in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:50:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bring out the duality of the Wind's Power in Shelley's  "Ode to the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Bring out the duality of the Wind's Power in Shelley's  "Ode to the West Wind."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:05:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shelley composed  the "Ode to the West Wind" while in Florence, Italy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shelley composed  the "Ode to the West Wind" while in Florence, Italy in the year 1819. It was published in the year 1820. Scholars affirm that the poem was directly inspired by the Peterloo Massacre of August 1819 at Manchester when a gathering of people who were fighting for parliamentary reform were brutally attacked by the military killing and injuring many. The gist of the poem is that Shelley considers himself as a poet prophet...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:26:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please summarise and explain Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind."]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please summarise and explain Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:53:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "trumpet of prophecy" is a critical component of Shelley's closing...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The "trumpet of prophecy" is a critical component of Shelley's closing in "Ode to the West Wind."  He seeks to link the natural phenomena of storms and the natural changing of the seasons to the his own hopes of achieving poetic immortality from obscurity.  Essentially, through a natural experience, Shelley seeks to link it to his own evolution as both thinker and artist.  Shelley sees the power of the winds, as it scatters leaves and hopes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:08:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the line "The trumpet of prophecy" from "Ode to the West Wind".]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the line "The trumpet of prophecy" from "Ode to the West Wind".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:30:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shelley's poem is incredibly complex and there is much happening within...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shelley's poem is incredibly complex and there is much happening within the poem to connect both his description of this storm and how the process of nature embodies both creation and destruction and governs all human beings.
A metaphor to describe this is in the second stanza,  where Shelley describes and compares the gathering of the storm clouds moving across the sky as being similar to the movement and focus of the Greek Maidens, Maenads,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:31:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Ode to the West Wind" give three examples of metaphors, and explain...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Ode to the West Wind" give three examples of metaphors, and explain what each one means.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:10:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the second section, here is a breakdown of each stanza:

1.  Here he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the second section, here is a breakdown of each stanza:

1.  Here he declares that the wind breaks the clouds up "like earth's decaying leaves" that are shaken from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean"; in other words, the wind can break apart the clouds so that the scatter about just like leaves from trees in the wind do.  The leaves are the clouds, the trees heaven and the ocean.

2.  He compares rain and lightning to angels, and says...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:06:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This line occurs in the fourth stanza of the ode, where Shelley compares...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This line occurs in the fourth stanza of the ode, where Shelley compares and contrasts the 'destroyer' west wind and the spring breeze the 'life giver.' The west wind is the 'destroyer' because it shakes down the ripe seeds from the plants and 'preserves' them by 'burying' them in the earth. The spring breeze which is warmed by the sun breathes life into these seeds and makes the entire English countryside to come alive in a riot of colour.
In...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:50:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the meaning of the line "driving sweet buds like flocks to feed...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the meaning of the line "driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air" in Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:35:30 PST</pubDate>
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"The trumpet of a prophecy!  O, Wind/
If Winter comes, can Spring be...]]></title>
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"The trumpet of a prophecy!  O, Wind/
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

The closing lines of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" highlights several themes of Romanticism as well.  One explanation behind the last two lines is that it speaks of hope and optimism.  Shelley seems to be saying that the wind carries with it the belief that something better lies ahead.  For example, if one feels the wind in winter, one knows that spring...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 05:03:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please explain in detail about the last two lines of "Ode to the West...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Please explain in detail about the last two lines of "Ode to the West Wind".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:10:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[IO wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,(apostrophe)Thou, from...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IO wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,(apostrophe)Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, (the four humours)Pestilence-stricken multitudes: 0 thou,Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed   (It drives.)
The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,Each like a corpse within its grave,untilThine azure sister of the Spring shall...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:01:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[eNotes' Guide to Literary Terms defines personification as "a figure of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[eNotes' Guide to Literary Terms defines personification as "a figure of speech in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are endowed with human form, character, traits, or sensibilities."
In "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley speaks to the west wind as though it were a human being. For example, in the first segment, he calls the wind a chariot driver. In the third segment, the west wind is described as a person who rouses the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:57:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Give some examples of personification in the poem "Ode to the West Wind."
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        <description><![CDATA[Give some examples of personification in the poem "Ode to the West Wind."
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        <title><![CDATA[How does "Ode to the West Wind" by Shelley evoke romantic ecstasy?
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        <description><![CDATA[How does "Ode to the West Wind" by Shelley evoke romantic ecstasy?
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        <title><![CDATA[Simply put, in the timeline of life, winter comes before spring.  As...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Simply put, in the timeline of life, winter comes before spring.  As soon as winter is finished, that means that spring is coming next, not far behind.  For the entire poem, Shelley has been talking about the west wind, and all that it does.  He describes in detail the times that the west wind blows, its effect on the earth and on people, and his feelings towards it.  Often, the descriptions are tumultuos and ominous; for example, the west...]]></description>
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