LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The passion between a husband and wife
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The loss of innocence
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The horrors of the French Revolution
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How poets can bring about political revolution
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Detailed explanation-1: -In his impassioned paean “Ode to the West Wind”, Percy Bysshe Shelley focuses on nature’s power and cyclical processes and, through the conceit of the wind and the social and political revolution prompted by the Peterloo massacre of August 1819, examines the poet’s role therein.
Detailed explanation-2: -Politics Politics Many critics have seen this as Shelley’s way of saying let his words/poems/thoughts be blown around the world. Nature in this sense is a metaphor for Shelley’s works. As wind cannot be seen nor can the poet; and to Shelley, poets are the unseen/unelected legislators of the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Ode to the West Wind” not only describes nature, but also expresses the revolutionary spirit of the poet. It is full of dangers, weaknesses and hopes. The poet asks the wind to give him its spirit, to restore the power he has lost. Shelley wrote this poem when he visited the Arno near Florence, Italy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Perhaps more than anything else, Shelley wanted his message of reform and revolution spread, and the wind becomes the trope for spreading the word of change through the poet-prophet figure. Some also believe that the poem was written in response to the loss of his son, William (born to Mary Shelley) in 1819.