Ode to the West Wind: A Complete Assignment with Critical Appreciation

  Percy Bysshe Shelley was a great poet of Romantic period who wrote ‘Ode to the West Wind’ in 1819 which was published in the following year (1820). Like other Romantics, Shelley was also impressed much by the French Revolution which started in 1789 and concluded within a short span of a decade. His poetry is a record of his radical and revolutionary thoughts. Therefore, he is very popular among the lovers of English poetry. ‘Ode to the West Wind’ consists of five consecutive cantos. Each canto contains fourteen lines divided into five stanzas. Each tercet stanza (consisting of three lines) is in terza rima form (e.g., aba, bcb, cdc and ded) whereas the last one is a couplet (ee). Each line of the poem has been divided into five feet and each foot consists of two syllables with alternate weak and strong stress i.e., Iambic Pentameter. (̩ Thine azˈ )(̩ ure sis̍ )(̩ ter of̍ )(̩ the Spring̍ )(̩ shall blowˈ ) P. B. Shelley (1792-1822) died young at the age of 29 in a boat acc...