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Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed. The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until. Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow.
Learn More. “Ode to the West Wind” is a poem written by the English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. According to Shelley, the poem was written in the woods outside Florence, Italy in the autumn of 1819. In the poem, the speaker directly addresses the west wind. The speaker treats the west wind as a force of death and decay, and ...
‘Ode to the West Wind’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley was written in 1819 near Florence and published in 1820. This iconic poem uses the wind as a symbol of change and the poet's role in instigating societal transformation. Some scholars believe it reflects Shelley's mourning for his son William.
"Ode to the West Wind" is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 in Cascine wood near Florence, Italy. It was originally published in 1820 by Charles Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems.
Ode to the West Wind. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792 –. 1822. I. O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead. Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Ode to the West Wind. O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead. Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed. The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Shelley begins ‘Ode to the West Wind’ by addressing this wind which blows away the falling autumn leaves as they drop from the trees. The leaves are various colours, including yellow, black, and red. It’s as if the leaves have been infected with a pestilence or plague, that makes them drop en masse.
