1、Ode to the West Wind,All Rights Reserved By Ricky,Company Logo,,Ode to the West Wind,Theme Discussion,Analysis,Company Logo,,Themes,Man and the Natural World Nature is more powerful than man. Because: west wind, spring wind and rebirth.,Company Logo,,Themes,Transformation He hopes to transform himse
2、lf by uniting his own spirit with the larger “Spirit“ of the West Wind and of Nature itself.,Company Logo,,Themes,Mortality the poem is filled with images of death and decay, reminders of both natural and human mortality. the death of one world will be inevitably followed by a new rebirth and a new
3、spring.,Company Logo,,Death can be productive because it creates an opportunity for new life and rebirth.,Company Logo,,Themes,Language and Communication the fate of his ideas. He hopes that his words and thoughts will be spread throughout the world. Hes not sure of the quality of his thinking, but
4、at least it can provide a starting point for other thinkers.,Company Logo,,The author has grand ideas, but he is to weak to spread them out. Then he needs the help of a force more powerful than himself to make them heard.,Company Logo,,Analysis,#Symbol Analysis#The West Wind Why it is west, not east
5、,not north,not south?,Company Logo,,make himself heard or to communicate his ideas to others. an association with the revolutionary, liberating aspects of the young United States. associated with autumn, the West Wind makes a spring rebirth possible by clearing away the old dead leaves and planting
6、seeds.,Company Logo,,Why it is wind? not thunder, not storm or other subjects,Company Logo,,The situational environment in which the poem was written. Wind is powerful to spread his ideas. Wind is a destroyer and a preserver.,Company Logo,,Analysis,#Symbol Analysis# Dead Leaves Dead leaves are a met
7、aphorical representation of the pages of writing and poetry generated by the the author. Once ideas are put down on paper, theyre printed on the “leaves“ of a book. At that point, they seem to be declining.,Company Logo,,(My personal ideas, please take it critically) Dead leaves were compared to the
8、 old ideas, and old forces which should be cleared away by west wind. Dead leaves can also be taken as the author himself: wane and decay.,Company Logo,,Analysis,#Symbol Analysis# Funerals plenty of funereal imagery and symbolism. dirges, corpses, the “dying year,“ a sepulcher Taken all together, th
9、ough, they make us feel like this poem is a kind of elegy (or lament) just as much as its an ode.,Company Logo,,#Symbol Analysis# Bodies of Water: Clouds originally from the water that evaporated from the ocean and that theyll rain back down into it. The water almost washes away the wind for a moment there but the poem reminds us that the West Wind is always stronger than the calm, passive seas.,
