Question

Think and Answer
Answer these questions.
4. Where does the west wind come from and what does it bring?
2. What time of the year is it? How is the weather then?
3. Whom does the poet want by his side?
4. Mention some sights and sounds of nature described by the poet
5. Where does the poet want to go? What will he find there?
Write out the lines of the poem which tell you that:
the poet feels sad when the west wind blows.​

Answer 1

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Criticism

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For Further Study

“Ode to the West Wind” was first published in 1820 in Shelley’s collection Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. In his prefatory note to the poem, Shelley wrote: “This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence, [Italy] and on a day when that tempestuous wind, whose temperature is at once mild and animating, was collecting the vapors which pour down the autumnal rains.” His description gives the location of the poem, but says nothing of the strained emotional circumstances in which it was composed. Four months before Shelley began writing “Ode to the West