Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley short Questions

Ode to the West Wind 

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the poem was published?

1820.

In how many Canto Ode to the West Wind written?

The poem is divided into five cantos written in Terza Rima.

What is the Rhyme scheme?

The rhyme scheme is ABA,BCB, CDC, DED with a rhyming couplet EE. 

What does, according to the poet, the wind do with the plants and seeds?

According to poet, the wind scattered the dry leaves of the trees from one place to another and in the same way it takes the seeds of trees from one place to another. In this way it works of a destroyer and a preserver.

Which powers of the wind the poet describes?

The poet describes winds power in the poem. He says that the wind has the power to create storms in the sea that cause vast destruction.

Who Carries Clouds in the poem?

Wind carries cloud from one place to another; it also takes dead leaves of the trees to the far off places.

What is the effect of the wind on seas?

The Mediterranean from "his summer dreams, divided the Atlantic into uneven gulfs. It brings thunderstorms in the oceans, cold, destruction of the natural world.

Why the wind can't take the poet with it?

The wind can't take the poet with it because he has much weight than a cloud. He then wishes to be a cloud so as to be lifted by the wind to take him to other countries to propagate his philosophy.

What does the poet wishes from the wind to do for him?

The poet knows well about the powers of the wind. He wishes it to take his revolutionary ideas with it "and to scatter it through out the world where he cannot spread them because of his limitations of time and sources.

How does, according to Shelly, the Western wind is a sign of hope?

According to Shelley, though the western wind brings destruction and death for the nature species, it is a sign of hope too. It is so because if an autumn comes it gives

hope that the spring is not far.

What do you know about the structure of the poem?

The poem is divided into five cantos written in terza rima. It is written in iambic pentameter .The first three cantos of it are wind. The other two are about the relationship of the the poet and the wind.