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关于《西风颂》修辞与意向的问题

By 阳光倾落 12-08 27次浏览

Analyze the dominant imagery in one of the sections (e.g., the earth, the sky, or the sea). How does Shelley use vivid natural imagery to convey abstract ideas about inspiration and revolution?

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  • 龙玥汝 12-08

    In the sky section (Stanza II), Shelley's dominant imagery of a gathering storm—featuring "loose clouds" as "Earth's decaying leaves," "Angels of rain and lightning," and the turbulent sky as the "locks of the approaching storm" and a "vast sepulchre"—conveys revolution and inspiration as elemental, inevitable, and sublime forces. The storm embodies both destructive fury and creative potential, visualizing inspiration not as a gentle muse but as a frenzied, prophetic possession (like that of a Maenad) that violently sweeps away the old order to enable rebirth, mirroring the poet's role as a visionary agent of cataclysmic change.

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  • 叶巧何 12-08

    In the section on the sky from "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley uses the violent and powerful imagery of a storm to convey his abstract ideas about inspiration and revolution. He describes the wind driving clouds like "decaying leaves" and compares the approaching storm to the tangled, fierce hair of a wild prophet. This vivid picture of the chaotic, uncontrollable sky serves as a metaphor. The storm represents the force of revolution—a necessary, destructive power that sweeps away a rotten old world. At the same time, this same wild wind is the source of the poet's inspiration, carrying his revolutionary thoughts and words ("dead thoughts") across the world to spark new life and change in mankind.

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