LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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To help drive his ideas across the universe
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To help him reach the afterlife
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To help him hear nature’s music
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To help him start a new revolutionary war
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Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker asks the wind to “drive [his] dead thoughts over the universe” so that even as he dies, others might take his thoughts and his ideas and give them “new birth”. He thinks that perhaps this might even happen with the very words he is speaking now.
Detailed explanation-2: -He desires to be a dead leaf or swift cloud so the west wind would carry him thereby feelings its strength. At last, the poet appeals to the west wind to turn him into a lyre. This way, his words can be scattered all over the world like a dead leaf for everyone through the wind.
Detailed explanation-3: -What does Shelley ask of the West Wind in the last two stanzas of “Ode to the West Wind"? What does he want as a poet? Use examples from the text to support your response. Shelley asks the wind to make him like a leaf, and to get rid of his bad thoughts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Readers can see that the west wind has became a symbol of the spirit, it represents the spirit of breaking the old world and the pursuit of the new order. The west wind is not only the wind in nature, but also embodies the revolutionary storm, which represents the irresistible force of the spirit.