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"Ode to the West Wind" is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 in arno wood [1] near Florence, Italy. It was originally published in 1820 by Charles Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus Unbound , A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems . [ 2 ]
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) ...
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.
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)
The exact chronological and interpretive orders of the six 1819 poems are unknown, but "Ode to Psyche" was probably written first and "To Autumn" last. [6] Keats simply dated the others May 1819. However, he worked on the spring poems together, and they form a sequence within their structures. [7]
In European tradition, it has usually been considered the mildest and most favorable of the directional winds. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, the god Zephyrus was the personification of the west wind and the bringer of light spring and early summer breezes; his Roman equivalent was Favonius (hence the adjective favonian, pertaining to the west wind).
Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth: 1793 Lines 1789 Written while sailing in a boat at Evening "How richly glows the water's breast" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection; Poems Written in Youth: 1798 Remembrance of Collins 1789 Composed upon the Thames near Richmond "Glide gently, thus for ever glide," Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in ...