In this poem the poet has personified the west wind. Who do you think he has personified the west wind as?

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In this poem, the poet has personified the west wind as a powerful spirit.

“…Be thou, Spirit fierce,

My spirit!”

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In ‘Ode to the West Wind’ the west wind is symbolic of both death and rebirth. Find instances from the poem to bring out this symbolism.

Answer the following questions:

1. What season of the year is presented in the poem?

2. What will happen to the dormant seeds once the west wind’s sister blows her clarion?

3. What will happen as all the clouds are gathered by the wind? In line 23

4. Throughout stanza II, the poet describes the approaching storm and its elements that the west wind will bring. Describe the storm in your own words.

5. The blue Mediterranean lies calm all summer. What comes to waken it?

6. In lines 53-54, the poet has “(fallen) upon the thorns of life ….” He wishes he could be free of life’s burdens. Quote how he phrases his desire to escape the “thorns of life” in these lines.

7. In lines 55-56, the poet says he used to have strength like the west wind, but now how does he describe himself?

8. The last line of the poem is often quoted. What do you understand the line to mean— other than that one season follows another?

Q. Ancient Romans personified justice as .

Read the first and second stanzas of the poem again. Note the following phrases.

Corn growing, people working or dancing, wind sighing, rain falling, a singer chanting

These could be written as

Can you rewrite the other phrases like this? Why do you think the poet uses the shorter phrases?

(Stanza 8) The poet uses words like ‘adown’, ‘rode’ which contain harsh consonants. Why do you think the poet has done this?

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In this poem the poet has personified the west wind. Who do you think he has personified the west wind as?

In this poem, the poet has personified the west wind as a powerful spirit. “…Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit!”

In this poem, the poet has personified the west wind as a powerful spirit.

“…Be thou, Spirit fierce,

My spirit!”