Jake M. Arbutante Reaction Paper # 02
IV- Pasteur September 14, 2007
Allegory and Symbolism in
Percy Shelley's
"Ode to the West Wind"
The Allegories and Symbolisms in the "Ode to the West Wind"
1st Stanza
Wild west wind...: Here the tone seems to be very calming, because the wind was described as "wild", this also gives the positive meaning to the poem.
Unseen presence the leaves dead
: When I've read this line, the idea of negativism came into my mind. When you rearranged the word, leaves dead', you would come up to the term "dead leaves". The sentence goes on and makes these dead' leaves live again as ghosts' that flee from something that panics them.
Pestilence-stricken multitudes
: This pestilence where described as yellow (symbolizes the color of the skin of a sick man), black (this may symbolize death), pale (totl contradiction to the color black, but fro me this symbolizes, sadness) hectic red (this may symbolize. blood)
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