Ode to the West Wind Group
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aaammmiii
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Could I have an explanation of section 4 of the poem "Ode to the West Wind" stanza by stanza?
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Posted by lit24 on Friday January 9, 2009 at 8:50 AMSection 4 is an earnest plea by Shelley to the west wind to infuse him with its raw power and liberate him from the bout of depression which has temporarily overwhelmed him. Shelley tells the west wind that when he was a boy he was also as "uncontrollable" as the west wind is now, and he would have easily matched the west wind in its speed. But now, he is depressed and weighed down by the cares and anxieties of life and prays to the west wind to liberate him. He pleads with the west wind that just like how it lifts up the leaves on the earth and the clouds on the sky and the waves on the sea it should free him also from the "thorns of life" on which he has fallen.
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