ode to west wind的讲解资料

Notes to "Ode to the West Wind"

Notes by Li, Jie for EN641, Spring 96;
HTML markup by Elizabeth Fay, May 1, 1996

**"Ode to the West Wind" is one of Shelley's best known lyrics.
The poet describes vividly the activities of the west wind on the earth,
in the sky and on the sea, and then expresses his envy for the boundless
freedom of the west wind, and his wish to be free like the wind and
to scatter his words among mankind.
The ode is a lyric poem of some length, dealing with a lofty theme
in a dignified manner and originally intended to be sung. The English
odes are generally of three types: (1) the Pindaric ode, following the
pattern originated by the ancient Greek poet Pindar, (2) the
Cowley-style ode, named after Abraham Cowley, an English poet of
the 17th century, and (3) the Horatian ode, named after the ancient
Roman poet Horace. Shelley's "Ode to the