Reading Notes W8, Part B


“Ode to the West Wind”

Wind/Words/Power/Influence

The West Winds are known to be the mildest and most favorable of the directional winds, yet the author describes them as the West Winds as “O wild West Winds” Knowing the influence of the wind rather mild or wild is why the author beseech help from the wind even though it does not tell him exactly what he wants yet. He describes the dead autumn leaves “Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, pestilence-stricken multitudes: O though, who chariots to dark wintry bed.  Maybe the author is trying to describe how his work is viewed seeing that not too many people cared for his work. “The winded seeds, where they lie cold and low, each like a corpse within it’s grave, until thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow.”  The author is describing that despite the leaves dying, there are still seeds left behind that in due season spring will cause it to eventually grow. The author will hope that one day the impact of his words will do the same, maybe after he dies.  Maybe someone who has read his work (sowed seeds) may one day speak of his work in another time. “Wild Spirit, which are moving everywhere: Destroyer ad Preserver; hear, O hear!”  The author desire for his words to be all over the world like the Wild Spirit (wind). His words destroy certain conventions of his time yet preserves his own unconventional such as atheism, vegetarianism, nationalism, and free love. The author insists on being heard. The second stanza Speaks of a storm in correlation to the type of writer he wants to be- a force to be reckoned with.  The element of the wind blowing the clouds (controlling the air) Third stanza speaks of the wind affects the sea… when you think of the sea you think of the shallowness and its deepness. The author desires his words not just to be read/summarized by people but understood deeply. Speaking to their soul. Fourth /Fifth stanza speaks of the authors desire for the wind to take his words (dead thoughts) over the universe. Make his words that have fallen on death ears come alive again. 




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  1. UnknownMarch 18, 2018 at 6:21 PM

    Your analysis was great! I really liked how you sort of compared the wild spirit to wind! I also like how you talk about the third stanza and the sea, and how its like the deepness and the shallowness, and how the author wants their work to be understood on a deeper level. Great job!

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