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1820 publication in the collection Prometheus Unbound with Other Poems 1820 cover of Prometheus Unbound, C. and J. Collier, London "Ode to the West Wind" is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 in arno wood [1] near Florence, Italy.
The title of the piece was inspired by "The Garden of Paradise", a fairy tale [1] by Hans Christian Andersen that was translated into French and published in 1907.[2]: 194 Debussy was known to have an affinity towards Andersen's stories, and it has been theorized that the author's character Zephyr – the West Wind – would have "appealed" to the composer when he was writing the prelude.
The West Wind, a 1928-9 sculpture by Henry Moore; See also. Ode to the West Wind, an 1819 poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley; The West Wing; West wind (disambiguation) ...
Pages in category "Poems about the wind" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Ode to the West Wind; W. The Wind (poem)
In Cowley's poetry, the ode follows an iambic metre, ... Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, written in fourteen line terza rima stanzas, is a major poem in the form.
According to the poem, From the full moon fell Nokomis/Fell the beautiful Nokomis. She bears a daughter, Wenonah. Despite Nokomis' warnings, Wenonah allows herself to be seduced by the West-Wind, Mudjekeewis, Till she bore a son in sorrow/Bore a son of love and sorrow/Thus was born my Hiawatha.
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Charles Olson quotes the poem in "Projective Verse" (1950). Thomas Pynchon for the title of his first published story, The Small Rain (1959). Ezra Pound includes the poem in Confucius to Cummings, edited with Marcella Spann (1964). George Oppen alludes to the poem in "O Western Wind" (1962),"The Little Pin: Fragment" (1975) and "Disasters" (1976).