Saturday, June 1, 2019
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lines Composed a Few M
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by WordsworthThe two chosen pieces both have a dominant theme of nature. Shelley, in his poem Ode to the West Wind, uses poignant tone, while using prosopopoeia and imagination to unravel his theme of nature. While Wordsworths ...Tintern Abbey contains a governing theme of nature, Wordsworth uses first person narration, illusive imagery, as well as an amiable tone to roam his connection to nature.In his poem, Ode to the West Wind, Shelley uses a poignant and heart-rending tone to describe the power of nature and more specifically the nuzzle. Shelleys reference to the wind, as the sister of Spring and a Maenad, shows how the wind is akin a woman, spontaneous and free, with the liberty to be a gentle soul or a vicious amazon. He sees the wind with wonderment, and at the corresponding time respects it and or even fears it. Shelly not only uses tone to depict his conception of nature, bu t he goes on to use personification to qualify the strength and vigor the wind possesses. He gives the wind human characteristics by referring to the wind as her and she. For example, Her clarion over the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With loving hues and odors plain and hill, can be paralleled with a woman tending to her garden with love and devotion. Along with a heart-rending tone and personification Shelley uses imagery to d...
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