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Ode to the West Wind is a 1819 poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem conveys the speaker's longing to spread his ideas as widely as the wind: ______10Mark for ReviewABCWhich quotation from Ode to the West Wind most effectively illustrates the claim?A"O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, / Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,"B"Drive my dead thoughts over the universe / Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! / And, by the incantation of this verse,"C"Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! / Be through my lips to unawakened earth"D"The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

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Ode to the West Wind is a 1819 poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem conveys the speaker's longing to spread his ideas as widely as the wind: ______10Mark for ReviewABCWhich quotation from Ode to the West Wind most effectively illustrates the claim?A"O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, / Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,"B"Drive my dead thoughts over the universe / Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! / And, by the incantation of this verse,"C"Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! / Be through my lips to unawakened earth"D"The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

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The quotation from "Ode to the West Wind" that most effectively illustrates the speaker's longing to spread his ideas as widely as the wind is:

B. "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe / Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! / And, by the incantation of this verse,"

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In the "Ode to the West Wind" the speaker treats the west wind as a force of death and decay and welcomes this death and decay because it means that rejuvenation and rebirth will come soon. Explain with references from the poem.

A few notable works of poetry of this period are “Songsof Innocence and of Experience” by William Blake,“Lyrical Ballads” by William Wordsworth and SamuelTaylor Coleridge,“The Eve of St. Agnes” and OtherPoems” by John Keats “Don Juan” by Lord Byron, and“Ode to the west wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

write a note on Percy Bysshe Shelley's writing style.

The following text is from the 1915 poem “Serepta Mason” by Edgar Lee Masters, from a book of poems that describes the lives of the townspeople in the fictional town Spoon River.My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sidesSave for a bitter wind which stunted my petalsOn the side of me which you in the village could see.From the dust I lift a voice of protest:My flowering side you never saw!Ye living ones, ye are fools indeedWho do not know the ways of the windAnd the unseen forcesThat govern the processes of life.Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?To refute the idea that the speaker’s life was full of hardship and paineliminateTo lament about the many difficulties incurred by a natural disastereliminateTo rail against the lack of care the speaker felt from the village regarding her many hardshipseliminateTo describe the misfortunes that occurred in the speaker’s garden

How does the poet speak to the wind—in anger or with humor? You must also have seen or heard of the wind “crumbling lives”. What is your response to this? Is it like the poet’s response?

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