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17 Article | English Literature

Lines Written in Early Spring

"Lines Written in Early Spring" has a rather simple form: it is composed of only six four-line stanzas, and is written in iambs with an abab rhyme scheme for each stanza...

18 Article | English Literature

When the wind blows from the West; a new world comes into being

Primavera is a painting announcing the arrival of spring (Primavera in Italian) by Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. Primavera is significantly illustrative of Renaissance classicistic iconography and form, depicting classical gods almost naked and life-size and a complex philosophical symbolism requiring deep knowledge of Renaissance literature and syncretism to interpret...

19 Article | English Literature

Commentary by Ian Lancashire, 9 September 

2002

In “Ode to the West Wind,” Shelley invokes Zephyrus, the west wind, to free his “dead thoughts” and words, “as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks” (63, 66-67), in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity, “to quicken a new birth.” (64) This ode, one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama,...

20 Article | English Literature

Percy Bysshe Shelley; Ode to the West Wind

1 O wild West Wind, thou breathe of Autumn’s being,
2 Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
3 Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
4 Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
5 Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
6 Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
7 The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,...

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