After today's class, we are almost finished with poetry styles. First up, the ode and the particular example of Shelley's "The West Wind." In five sonnets, Shelley utilizes the wind and its relationship to three of the four elements (fire saved for the last stanza and the ultimate rebirth of humanity and self) and eventually ties the "tameless, and swift, and proud" to himself to make nature and the speaker kindred spirits. Ending with a rhetorical question, Shelley leaves the wind and its resilience to the audience and their comprehension to the "trumpet of prophecy."
Tomorrow -- vocab, sonnets, villanelles, multiple choice, and Shakespeare.
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