One of the finest of Shelley’s poems is the Ode to the West Wind. The poem opens with the west wind rushing through the wood like a living river, and bearing with it the dead leaves are also the winged seeds which the wind also bears to their rest, where they may quicken when Spring comes. In the Ode to the West Wind. Shelley was walking by the Arno in the wood among fallen leaves and saw massed clouds rising from the south-west to usher in the yearly storm with which the autumnal rains begin in October in Italy. The tempestuous motion of the tress and clouds awaken the tempestuous passion of his heart. The impulse from without and the awakened impulse within mingling in passionate embrace brought forth the poem. And the fusion of thought, emotion, metre and movement has imparted an organic unity to the poem.

The poem opens with the west wind is thus the Preserver as well as Destroyer. The west wind passes through the forests of the earth, through the clouds of the sky into the depths of the ocean, through the woods, and sky and ocean of Shelley’s heart, and then at the climax of emotion it leaves him and sweeps through all mankind, bearing away with it dead things and the seeds of new. Out of the personal Shelley passes into the impersonal, and at that moment the future opens to him. Beyond the storm, beyond the coming winter, he sees the new-awakened world, the birth of all the seeds, the outburst of a spring in humanity. O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind? It is the hymn of our own world. In the Ode to the West Wind, the forces of Nature are not personified as in nature-myths. To Shelley, the west wind is thus the Preserver as well as Destroyer. The west wind is thus the Preserver as well as Destroyer. The west wind is still a wind and the cloud a cloud. They do not take on human attributes, though their qualities may be expressed images drawn from human beings.

The Ode is much nearer to music than to painting being so full of sound motion. It gives us a more authentic experience than we could get from any pictorial description. The metere which is terza rima is managed with complete mastery. As the lines rush through a complicated system of rhymes, they express the irresistible power and speed of the wind. And the music gets varied as if with sudden high lyrics musical school changes of instruments in an orchestra. Lyrics needed: "Rodent Revolt" by Mock Turtle Soup. I didn't have any success looking for it via the 'net nor any newsgroups. If anyone happens to have the lyrics, would you please post and/or email them to me? Thanks! By sai...@nettally.com - 3:55pm - 1 new of 1 message van halen - ain't talking 'bout love does anybody know what the official lyrics are? is it "so if you want it got to bleed for it baby" or "so if you want it, any help is appreciated tia --- richie By Richie - Nov 15 - 4 new of 4 messages AUDIO: New World Orders.mp3 - The King Has Spoken - The bushmob is thieving billions from America as we speak, to further terrorize a dying America lost to the indifference broadcasted daily on almost every radio and TV network as our silenced voices. Al-Qaida = General Mahmoud Ahmad THE TEN PLAGUES OF ZIONISM sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/11 /12/nazis-were-right-said-alan - dershowitz / / Welcome to the world of the reality in which a Jewish American Zionist man can cite Nazis in defence of torture tactics.

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