Hi 'purplehaze'. Shelley's an interesting personality, linked with his wife, Mary, and life-long friend Lord Byron. They really were not too conventional a collective!
'Ode to the West Wind' is a complex Symphonic poem and incorporates just about every poetic grammatical device invented to annotate verse.
Three line stanzas interspersed with two-liners was a Shelley speciality. He bucked the system, much the same as one or two poets now insist that a 'Sonnet' doesn't have to contain just 14 lines of ten syllables, but can be either longer or shorter. [Never mind 4 or 5 centuries of tradition!] what the heck!
Great poem Jan, and an analyst's dream, a real TMA essay piece, with many interpretations, hope the tutor was feeling kindly when marking.
Has all the imagery of Alaska plus some! which we love and cherish.
Hi 'purplehaze'. Shelley's an interesting personality, linked with his wife, Mary, and life-long friend Lord Byron. They really were not too conventional a collective!
ReplyDelete'Ode to the West Wind' is a complex Symphonic poem and incorporates just about every poetic grammatical device invented to annotate verse.
Three line stanzas interspersed with two-liners was a Shelley speciality. He bucked the system, much the same as one or two poets now insist that a 'Sonnet' doesn't have to contain just 14 lines of ten syllables, but can be either longer or shorter. [Never mind 4 or 5 centuries of tradition!] what the heck!
Great poem Jan, and an analyst's dream, a real TMA essay piece, with many interpretations, hope the tutor was feeling kindly when marking.
Has all the imagery of Alaska plus some! which we love and cherish.
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