Ode To The West Wind Comments

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? This has become on of my favorite lines of PB Shelley!

why is it timed

its very instersting

cool it sounds really good

O mightiest west wind I am sluggish; oozy soul Take me away with your wave excellent masterpiece of PB Shelley

This poem is like a beautiful woman.

“Ode to the West Wind” is the finest piece of poetry by P. B. Shelley. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ” has become a popular quote to be followed in real life situations!

A few days ago I visited Shelley' tomb in Rome, where he lies near Keats.. Immense poet, and so young! To keep going in a long work in terza rima is a terribly difficult work, and nowhere one senses the difficulty of composition! The terza rima is enjoyable and the poetry flows freely, nothwithstanding the difficult technique!

hi all could you please right the poetic function and the forms of the artistic features of the first stanza please.?

Who am I to comment on the greatest, immortal poet! I just bow my head in obeisance and thank Him, God almighty to allow me to have lived after him, so I could read, relish and dream about him.

Meanad(s) were the wild female followers of Baccus, the wine god. They dismembered and tore to shreds anyone who crossed their path.

Actually a sonnet series, cleverly broken into tercets, to make one long poem

Great piece of art - unrivaled in style and inimitable with respect to skill...

On the blue surface of life's own ways. Nice work.

One of the best romantic poems of the 18th century by P B Shelley on West Wind and prophecy of coming Spring season after Winter by his immortal words in the last two lines of his final sonnet of this poem no one can surpass and forget ever in the world sure!

Classic poem, I need a few more re-reads, slowly to enjoy

Spendid. World classic. I've translated this Ode into bengali in 2010 and I've tried my best to preserve the original taste.

Once again, I felt as if I was sitting in my class room enjoying the music and lyrical beauty of this immortal poem. How can one forget such a lively portrayal of nature and the impact of the 'West Wind. Just amazing: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear! / The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Yes, indeed a great poem by a great poet, though somehow Shelley makes me infinitely sad at times, as if he never found what he longed for, was it that wildness of the West Wind I wonder? This poem is deep, moving, and full of romanesque nostalia, and yes, the rhyme scheme is as Dante, so challenging, and invites poets to get out their pens and work, even if we never quite arrive to produce this ease and simplicity in which Shelly, and chiefly Dante, (my favorite of favorites) , wrote. Panmelys

Percy Bysshe Shelley is the composer of the most lyrical and beautiful verse in the English language and 'Ode to the West Wind' is a prime example of that. Here he handles the extremely difficult terza rima rhyme scheme of Dante Alighieri with effortless ease. He is the greatest of the Romantics and, arguably, also the greatest ever.