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Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,. And tremble and despoil themselves: oh hear! “Ode to the West Wind” can be found on pages 783-785 in The Language ...
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“Ode to the West Wind” can be found on pages 783- 785 in The Language of Literature: British Literature****. Helpful Information: 3 enchanter: magician, wizard, sorcerer 4 hectic: feverish, energetic 5 pestilence: plague, illness 6 chariotest: retreats, leaves 9 azure: bright blue color Sister of the Spring: South wind of spring, which revives everything that has died in winter 10 clarion: a trumpet with a clear, ringing tone 12 plain: an open area similar to a field or meadow 15 mid: amid, between 17 boughs: branches 19 aëry: airy 20 - 23 The speaker is saying that the clouds lie in streaks, looking like the streaming hair of a maenad – a wildly dancing female worshipper of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. 23 dirge: funeral song 25 sepulcher: tomb 26 congregated might: collective strength 31 crystalline streams: the different-colored transparent currents of the Mediterranean Sea 32 pumice: a light volcanic rock Baiae’s bay: the Bay of Naples, site of the ancient Roman resort of Baiae 37 - 38 You (still addressing West Wind) for whose path the surface of the Atlantic Ocean breaks in two (creates waves)… 39 - 40 sea-blooms, oozy woods, sapless foliage: describing various plants that grow in the ocean, including seaweed 42 despoil: plunder, steal, pillage oh hear: listen
“Ode to the West Wind” can be found on pages 783- 785 in The Language of Literature: British Literature****. Helpful Information: 50 thy skyey speed: the swiftness of clouds moving quickly across the sky 51 vision: an impossibility 52 sore: desperate, extreme 57 lyre: a reference to the Aeolian harp, an instrument whose strings make music when the wind blows over them 59 tumult: uproar, commotion 62 impetuous: violently forceful; impulsive 65 incantation: recitation (like a spell)
“To a Skylark” can be found on pages 786 - 9 in The Language of Literature: British Literature. Helpful Information: 1 blithe: carefree 2 wert: were
planned out ahead of time 16 even: evening 22 silver sphere: the planet Venus, often called the morning star because it is visible in the east just before daybreak 45 bower: private room; boudoir