Can any tell me a good website from where I can get the full explanation of the poem "ODE TO THE WEST WIND".

Answer 1

The speaker invokes the "wild West Wind" of autumn, which scatters the dead leaves and spreads seeds so that they may be nurtured by the spring, and asks that the wind, a "destroyer and preserver," hear him. The speaker calls the wind the "dirge / Of the dying year," and describes how it stirs up violent storms, and again implores it to hear him. The speaker says that the wind stirs the Mediterranean from "his summer dreams," and cleaves the Atlantic into choppy chasms, making the "sapless foliage" of the ocean tremble, and asks for a third time that it hear him.

The speaker says that if he were a dead leaf that the wind could bear, or a cloud it could carry, or a wave it could push, or even if he were, as a boy, "the comrade" of the wind's "wandering over heaven," then he would never have needed to pray to the wind and invoke its powers. He pleads with the wind to lift him "as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!"--for though he is like the wind at heart, untamable and proud--he is now chained and bowed with the weight of his hours upon the earth.
The speaker asks the wind to "make me thy lyre," to be his own Spirit, and to drive his thoughts across the universe, "like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth." He asks the wind, by the incantation of this verse, to scatter his words among mankind, to be the "trumpet of a prophecy." Speaking both in regard to the season and in regard to the effect upon mankind that he hopes his words to have, the speaker asks: "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"


there is more stuff about it on sparknotes.com

Answer 2

http://www.newi.ac.uk/rdover/ode.htm

On the webpage shown above, the entire poem is printed, and throughout the poem, key words are underlined and can be clicked on for very informative and helpful explanations about what is meant.

Although I was familiar with the poem already, and re-read it on the website, I think it would be more beneficial to you to read it through, yourself, to reach an understanding, as opposed to me giving you MY take on it.

Although poetry - especially pieces by authors like Shelley - can sometimes be challenging to figure out, it's only when YOU, with the inquiring mind, read (and re-read!) it that you gain comprehension.....which is what you really need to get through this - and any other - assignment.

Envision yourself as a future Jeopardy! contestant, and being the only one who knows this. The other two people had someone do their homework for them, poor souls.

(If you, the questioner, are not a student, forgive me, but, you get my point).

Answer 3

dont worry its an easy lesson and u know i didnt prepared it very nisely 4 boards (2006) but i did it! try to get some help 4m seniors it always helps as u get to know the imp. lines. try some refrence or some good guide books.