雪莱西风颂赏析.pptVIP

Short Poems Shelley’s short poems on nature, love, and political freedom form an important part of his literary output. Shelley is skillful at expressing his emotion through the description of all kinds of natural phenomena. Ode to the West Wind Ode to the West Wind  　 　I 　　O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumns being, 　　Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead 　　Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, 　　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 its grave, until 　　Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow 　　Her clarion oer the dreaming earth, and fill 　　(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) 　　With living hues and odours plain and hill: 　　Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; 　　Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear! 　　 WRITING SKILL The poem is written in the form of terza rima, i.e. , iambic pentameter lines arranged in tercets in which line 2 of each tercet rhymes with 1 and 3 of the next, thus：aba, bcb, cdc, ded, with a final couplet, ee. It, composed in iambic pentameter, consists of 5 stanzas of 14 lines each, or four 3-line sub-stanzas plus one 2-line couplet sub-stanzas. There are many run-on lines and sub-stanzas, which suit well the depiction of the unruly wind and the onrush of emotion. The emotional turmoil, long pent-up in the bosom of the poet, bursts out with its utmost force. It is reinforced with the use of appropriate imagery and impeccable rhyme and rhythm, though colored at times with a sentimentality that may detract a little from the power of eruption. It is one of the best, endearing English lyrics to come out of literary history. The first stanza begins with the alliteration “wild west wind”, which makes the wind sounds invigorating. The first stanza is in fact one sentence broken into different lines with the verb “hea