Questions On Shelly’s “Ode To The West Wind”

Questions On Shelly’s “Ode To The West Wind”



READ THE GIVEN EXTRACTS AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FALLOW :




1. O WILD WEST WIND, THOU BREATH OF AUTUMN’S BEING,
THOU, FROM WHOSE UNSEEN PRESENCE HE LEAVES DEAD
ARE DRIVEN, LIKE GHOSTS FROM AN ENCHANTER FLEEING.


(a.) WHICH SEASON OF THE YEAR IS PRESENTED IN THE POEM
(b.) WHICH POETIC DEVICE HAS THE POET USED IN THE LAST LINE? IDENTIFY.
(c.) WHY ARE THE LEAVES REFFED AS DEAD?
(d.) GIVE TWO WORDS FROM THE ABOVE LINES WHICH TELL US ABOUT WIND.


2. YELLOW, AND BLACK, AND PALE, AND HECTIC RED,
PESTILENCE-STRICKEN MULTITUDES: O THOU,
WHO CHARIOTEST TO THEIR DARK WINTRY BED
THE WINGED SEEDS, WHERE THEY LIE COLD AND LOW,
EACH LIKE A CORPSE WITHIN IT’S GRAVE,UNTILL
THINE AZURE SISTER OF THE SPRING SHALL BLOW



(a.) WHAT DO THE GIVEN COLOURS DESCRIBE?
(b.) ‘PESTILENCE-STRICKEN MULTITUDE’ MEANS?
(c.) WHERE DO THE WINGED SEEDS LIE? HOW DO THEY REACH THERE ?
(d.) CHOOSE AN EXAMPLE OF A SIMILE IN THE ABOVE LINES.
3. HER CLARION O’ER THE DREAMING EARTH, AND FILL
(DRIVING SWEET BUDS LIKE FLOCKS TO FEED IN AIR)
WITH LIVING HUES AND ODOURS PLAINS AND HILL :
WILD SPIRIT, WHICH ART MOVING EVERYWHERE;
DESTROYER AND PRESERVER;HEAR,OH,HEAR!

(a.) WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE DORMANT SEEDS ONCE THE EAST WIND SISTER OF THE WEST WIND BLOWS HER CLARION?
(b.) IDENTIFY ANY TWO FIGURES OF SPEECH IN THE ABOVE LINES.
(c.) WHY DOES THE POEAT CALL THE WEST WIND AS A DESTROYER AND PRESERVER?



4. THOU ON WHOSE STREAM, ‘MID THE STEEP SKY’S COMMOTION,
LOOSE CLOUDS LIKE EARTH’S DECAYING LEAVES ARE SHED,
SHOOK FROM THE TANGLED BOUGHS OF HEAVEN AND OCEAN,
ANGLES OF RAIN AND LIGHTNING :THERE ARE SPREAD
ON THE BLUE SURFACE OF THINE AERY SURGE,
LIKE THE BRIGHT HAIR UPLIFTED FROM THE HEAD


(a.) SKY’S COMMOTION REFERS TO WHAT?
(b.) PICK OUT TWO EXAMPLES OF SIMILES.
(c.) INDENTIFY ANOTHER POETIC DEVICE USED IN THE ABOUVE LINES.
(d.) NAME THE POET OF THE ABOVE POEM?


5. OF SOME FIERCE MAENAD, EVEN FROM THE DIM VERGE
OF THE HORIGON TO THE ZENITH’S HEIGHT,
THE LOCKS OF THE APPROACHING STORM. THOU DIRGE


(a.) WHAT WILL HAPPEN AS ALL THE CLOUDS ARE GATHERED BY THE WIND?
(b.) WHAT DOES WEST WIND SYMBOLISE IN THE ABOVE LINES
(c.) IN WHAT CONTEXT HAS MAENAD BEEN REFERRED TO?


6. OF THE DYING YEAR, TO WHICH THIS CLOSING NIGHT
WILL BE THE DOME OF A VAST SEPULCHRE
VAULTED WITH ALL THY CONGREGATED MIGHT
OF VAPORS, FROM WHOSE SOLID ATMOSPHERE
BLACK RAIN, AND FIRE, AND HAIL WILL BURST :OH, HEAR


(a.) EXPLAIN THE MEANING OF ‘VAST SEPULCHRE’.
(b.) ‘THOU DIRGE OF THE DYING YEAR’ EXPLAIN THE MEANING.
(c.) WHAT DOES THE LAST LINE SINGNIFY?



7. THOU WHO DIDST WAKEN FROM HIS SUMMER DREAMS
THE BLUE MEDITERRANEAN, WHERE HE LAY,
LULL’D BY THE COIL OF HIS CRYSTALLINE STREAMS,
BESIDE A PUMICE ISLE IN BAIAE’S BAY ,
ANS SAW IN SLEEP OLD PALACES AND TOWERS
QUIVERING WITH IN THE WAVE’S INTENSER DAY,


(a.) PERSONIFICATION MEANS TO ATTRIBUTE HUMAN QUALITIES TO INANIMATE OBJETS. CHOOSE AN EXAMPLE OF THE GIVEN POETIC DEVICE.
(b.) HOW HAS THE MEDITERRANEAN BEEN WAKENED?
(c.) WHAT DOES THE MEDITERRANEAN SEE IN HIS DREAMS?
(d.) EXPLAIN THE LAST LINE.

8. ALL OVERGROWN WITH AZURE MOSS AND FLOWERS
SO SWEET, THE FAINTS PITURING THEM ! THOU
FOR THOSE PATH THE ATLANTIC’S LEVEL POWERS


(a.) WHAT IS OVERGROWN WITH AZURE MOSS AND FLOWERS?
(b.) WHY DOES THE POET SAY THE, ‘FAINTS PITURING THEM’?
(c.) WHOSE PATH IS REFERRED TO?
(d.) WHAT IS ITS EFFECT ON THE SEA BLOOMS AND OOZY WOODS?


9. CLEAVE TEMSELVES IN TO CHASMS, WILE FAR BELOW.
THE SEA-BLOOMS AND OOZY WOODS WICH WEAR
THE SAPLESS FOLIAGE OF THE OCEAN, KNOW
THE VOICE, AND SUDDENLYGROW GRAY WITH FEAR,
AND TREMBLE AND DESPOILTHEMSELVES; OH, HEAR!

(a.) WHO CLEAVE INTO CHARM AND WHY?
(b.) WHY DO THE SEA BLOOM OF THE OCEAN SUDDENLY GROW GRAY ? WHAT IS THE EFFECT?
(c.) DESCRIBE THE ACTION OF WEST WIND ON WATER.

10. IF I WERE A DEAD LEAF THOU MIGHTEST BEAR;
IF I WERE A SWIFT CLOUD TO FLY WITH THEE;
A WAVE TO PANT BENEATH THY POWE, AND SHARE

(a.) WHAT DOES THE POET DESIRE TO BE?
(b.) ACCORDING TO THE POEST WHAT ARE THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE WEST WIND?
(c.) JUSTIFY THE TITLE OF THE POEM.







11. THE IMPULSE OF THY STRENGHT, ONLY LESS FREE
THAN THOU, O UNCONTROLLABLE !IF EVEN
I WERE AS IN MY BOYHOOD, AND COULD BE
THE COMRADE OF THY WANDERINGS OVER HEAVEN,
AS THEN, WHEN TO OUTSTRIP THY SKIEY SPEED
SCARCE SEEM’D A VISION; I WOULD NE’ER HAVE
STRIVEN ‘ONLY LESS FREE’

(a.) WHY DOES THE POET SAY,’ONLY LESS FREE’? WHO IS TALKING ABOUT?
(b.) HOW WAS THE POET IN HIS BOYHOOD?
(c.) WHAT DOES THE POET WANT TO BE?
(d.) WHAT DOES ‘AS THEN’ REFER TO?


12. AS THUS WITH THEE IN PRAYER IN MY SORE NEED.
OH, LIFT ME AS A WAVE, A LEAF, A CLOUD!
I FALL UPON THE THORNS OF LIFE ! I BLEED !
A HEAVY WEIGHT OF HOURS HAS CHAINED AND
BOWED
ONE TOO LIKE THEE- TAMELESS, AND SWIFT, AND
PROUD.

(a.) THE POET WISHES TO BE FREE OF LIFE’S BURDEN. IDENTIFY THE PHRASE THAT EXPRESSES HIS DESIRE TO ESCAPE-“THE THORNS OF LIFE’.
(b.) WHY DOES THE POET SAY HE USED TO HAVE STREANGTH LIKE THE WEST WIND HAS ? NOW HOWDOES HE DESCRIBE HIMSELF?
(c.) WHICH POETIC DEVICE IS USED IN THE ABOVE STANZA ? IDENTIFY IT.

13. MAKE ME THE LYRE, EVEN AS THE FOREST IS :
WHAT IF MY LEAVES ARE FALLING IT’S OWN ?
THE TUMULT OF THY MIGHTY HARMONIES


(a.) WHICH WORD IN THE ABOVE LINE MEANS A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT?
(b.) HOW DOES THE POET COMPARE HIMSELF TO THE FOREST?
(c.) EXPLAIN THE LAST LINE?


14. WILL TAKE FROM BOTH A DEEP, AUTUMNAL TONE,
SWEET THOUGH IN SADNESS. BE THOU, SPIRIT FOERCE,
MY SPIRIT ! BE THOU ME, IMTETUOUS ONE !

(a.) WHY DOES THE POET, CALL THE WIND IMPETOUS?
(b.) HOW WILL THE DEEP AUTUMNAL TOME BE PRODUCED AND WHY?
(c.) WHY DOES THE POET SAY, ‘IN SADNESS’?



15. DRIVE MY DEAD THOUGHTS OVER THE UNIVERSE
LIKE WITHERED LEAVES TO QUICKEN A NEW BIRTH !
AND, BY THE INCANTATION OF THIS VERSE,


(a.) WHICH LITERARY DEVICE IS USED IN THE ABOVE LINES?
(b.) WHY DOES THE POET WANT HIS DEAD THOUGHTS TO BE SCATTERED?
(c.) EXPLAIN THE LAST LINE.


16. SCATTER, AS FROM AN UNEXTINGUISHED HEARTH
ASHES AND SPARKS, MY WORD’S AMONG MANKIND !BE THOUGH MY LIPS TO UNAWAKEN’D EARTH
THE TRUMPET OF A PROPHECY !O WIND,
IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND?


(a.) WHAT DOES THE POET WANT TO SCATTERED ? WHAT DOES HE COMPARE IT TO?
(b.) WAT DO SPRING AND WINTER STAND FOR?
(c.) WHO WILL BLOW THE TRUMPET OF PROPHECY?
(d.) WHICH TRAITS OF THE POET ARE EXPRESSED IN THE ABOVE LINES ?







17. IN THE POEM ‘ODE TO THE WEST WIND’ WHAT ACTIVITIES OF THE WEST WIND HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED? WHY IS IT CALLED ‘WIND SPIRIT’?



18. WHAT DES WEST WIND SYMBOLISE?
DESCRIBE THE ACTION OF THE WEST WIND ON WATER.



19. WHAT APPEALDOES THE POET MAKE TO THE WEST WIND? EXPLAIN THE LAST LINE OF THE POEM



20. EXPLAIN THE TITLE OF THE POEM ‘ODE TO THE WEST WIND’. WITH WHOM DOES THE POET IDENTIFY HIS OWN PERSONALITY AND WHY?