Ode To West Wind

Ode to the double-u Wind 
By Percy Bysshe Shelley 
Text, Summaries, and Notes1 
O wild West Wind, gram breath of Autumns being,  
  Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves defunct  
Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,   Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,  
Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O thou          5 
  Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The wingèd1 seeds, where they prevarication cold and low,  
  Each like a corpse deep down its grave, until  
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow   Her play2 oer the ambition earth, and fill   10 
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)  
  With living hues and odours plain and hill; Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;  
Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear! Summary, Stanza 1Addressing the westbound wind as a human, the poet describes its activities: It drives dead leaves away as if they were ghosts fleeing a wizard. The leaves are yellow and black, pale and red, as if they had died of an morbific disease. The west wind carries seeds in its chariot and deposits them in the earth, where they catch ones breath until the spring wind awakens them by blowing on a proclaim (clarion). When they form buds, the spring wind spreads them everyplace plains and on hills.



In a paradox, the poet addresses the west wind as a untier and a preserver, then asks it to listen to what he says. Notes, Stanza 11. The accent over the e in wingèd (line 7) causes the word to be pronounced in two syllablesâ€"the first stressed ....and the foster unstressedâ€"enabling the poet to maintain the metric scheme (iambic pentameter).  
2. clarion: Trumpet.|
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Thou on whose stream, mid the steep skys commotion,   15 
  open(a) clouds like earths decaying leaves are shed,  
Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean,   Angels of pelting and lightning! there are spread  
On the blue develop of thine airy surge,  
  Like the bright hair uplifted from the pointedness   20Of some fierce Mænad3, even from the dim enclosure  
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