Percy Bysshe Shelley
a.) first stanza
The first stanza begins with the alliteration ‘wild West Wind'. This makes the ‘wind' "sound invigorating". The reader gets the impression that the wind is something that lives, because he is ‘wild' – it is at that point a personification of the ‘wind' in the form of an apostrophe. Even after reading the headline and the alliteration, one might have the feeling that the ‘Ode' might somehow be positive. But it is not, as the beginning of the poem destroys the feeling that associated the wind with the spring. The first few lines consist of a lot of sinister elements, such as ‘dead leaves'. The inversion of ‘leaves dead' (l. 2) in the first stanza underlines the fatality by putting the word ‘dead' (l. 2) at the end of the line so that it rhymes with the next lines. The sentence goes on and makes these ‘dead' (l. 2) leaves live again as ‘ghosts' (l. 3) that flee from something that panics them. The sentence does not end at that point but goes on with a......
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