Ode to the West Wind Group
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hhh666
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Could I have an explanation of section 3 of the poem "Ode to the West Wind" stanza by stanza?
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Posted by lit24 on Friday January 9, 2009 at 8:08 AMThe third section describes the action of the west wind on the Mediterranean Sea and on the Atlantic Ocean. The west wind announces to the Mediterranean Sea that summer is over and autumn has arrived. The clear view on a bright summer day of the under water palaces and towers in Baiae's Bay off the coast of Naples near the island made up of volcanic rock is disturbed by the west wind which blows across it. Similarly the west wind creates deep valleys as it blows across the level Atlantic Ocean and reminds the underwater vegetaion deep below that it is autumn and that they too must disintegrate like the vegetation on the earth above.
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