Page 157 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
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“Ode to the West Wind”
by Percy Bysshe Shelley, pages35-37
Vocabulary
hectic – frenzied
pestilence – plague, disease
azure – blue
pumice – powdery ash used as an abrasive
1. What is the rhyme scheme of each section of the poem?
2. What is the wind a metaphor of?
3. In contrast with “Pestilence-stricken,” what positive attribute do the dead leaves have?
4. In the section IV, what is the wish of the speaker? What urges him to make such a wish?
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