西风颂英语毕业论文

The vast night sky, in western poetry has countless stars shine, shine.The life course only thirty spring and autumn period of British poet Shelley has past tianyu resplendent in a meteor, glowing with singular and dazzling brilliance.We hear of his poetry is more like the song of life, not always singing poet immortal life, echoes in eternity of time and space.Shelley was born in a hereditary noble family, since childhood to the families of the conservative atmosphere and the kind of gentleman poise filled with disgust affectation.In school, he accepted the eighteenth century enlightenment thought, and the utopian socialism of early British trend more give him with profound effect.He once said: I will not with selfishness, company image, curse people together, and I will be attacked.I swear will pour out my whole life contribute to worship of beauty.Shelley's young life is such a spirit of rebellion and struggle at the beginning, from his ode to the west wind ", the first thing we feel is a peaceful soul, one erases all the destruction of the ugly forces:It should be said that Shelley is conditional enjoy praised the secular life, he became his family as the eldest son of the rank of nobility and property of the inevitable successor, boyhood into Eaton his noble school, youth he studied at Oxford University, he should follow the rules from nation, Ann keepeth his.However he lent his family expenses were all used to buy books, he was reluctant to sacrifice his spirit in the presence of the title and heritage.Shelley to s, Europe in the age of darkness, the reactionary forces gathered together and formed a "holy alliance", under the coercion of the bourgeois regime, the democratic and national revolution in the trough, the atmosphere of choking on the society at that time, more make the Shelley to burst all mental quality.So, in order to get rid of the bound and obstacles of mental anguish, Shelley with "west wind" such a male of powerful artistic image to an outlet his pent-up resentment in the heart.To say the "west wind" the precision wild, uninhibited, wanton destruction force is just what Shelley's desire to pursue life force, was his strong resistance by the currents of life.West wind comes, "all saddened discoloration, bravery afraid lose, shuddering litter" itself, it went through the cloud in the sky, the long wave short waves in the sea to rise, its hands to have swept away all things that do not belong to the autumn, the damage and refreshes fun, this energetic male pleasure forever, is just the most real Shelley's life consciousness.In the past, we in the understanding of Shelley's poem, the "west wind" of this kind of destructive power as more of a social revolutionary force, it is certainly not wrong.Because Shelley is a always pay attention to politics, the study of politics, and engaged in political poet, he is the dark social reality detest evil, to hate everything ugly power, he is going to change all the old, a strong desire to create a new society are reflected in many of his poems.And strong west wind, of course, can be interpreted as a symbol of revolutionary spirit.It is said that the the lu xun's "ode to west wind" is introduced to China, with particular emphasis on the poems that misfits and destruction of the time spirit, because the Chinese have many forms of bondage and obstacles of the society, need to "destruction" and "new".But like today we can't take only a single understanding of lu xun for a political "revolutionary fighters" (where lu xun once accept Nietzsche's "superman philosophy", according to Nietzsche's view, "destruction and power" is reflected as a "superman" life vigor), Shelley "west wind" this image also borrow xuan yu on such a philosophy of life: the power of life is to destroy.Here the "destruction" of both destroy meaning, has a profound connotation of struggles against, more.Actually in Shelley's life, always embodies the resistance and struggle, he was expelled from school, was expelled from the family, his against the tide with a civilian woman private life and his eldest daughter eloped with teacher Switzerland and his adventure, etc., all in the bowels of the character indicates that Shelley restless and struggle, and his tireless, YongWangZhiQian the pursuit of the spirit.Therefore shape through the "west wind" this great art image, we should see more was the "superman" Shelley himself as the embodiment of the life force. 终于打好了，打字好累。望接纳~

Analysis of Percy Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” In 'Ode to the West Wind,' Percy Bysshe Shelley tries to show his desire for transcendence, by explaining that his thoughts and ideas, like the 'winged seeds' are trapped. The West Wind acts as a force for change and forward movement in the human and natural world. Shelley sees winter not just as the last season of vegetation but as the last phase of life. Shelley observes the changing of the weather from autumn to winter and its effects on the environment. Shelley is trying to show that a man’s ideas can spread and live on beyond his lifetime by having the wind carry his 'dead thoughts' which through destruction, will lead to a rebirth in the imagination, and in the natural world. Shelley begins his poem by addressing the 'Wild West Wind'. He then introduces the theme of death and compares the dead leaves to 'ghosts'. The imagery of 'Pestilence-stricken multitudes' makes the reader aware that Shelley is addressing more than a pile of leaves. His claustrophobic mood is shown when he talks about the 'wintry bed' and 'The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low/ Each like a corpse within its grave, until/ Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow'. In the first line, Shelley used the phrase 'winged seeds' which presents i . . . The 'closing night' is used also to mean the final night. The 'pumice' shows destruction and creation because when the volcano erupts it destroys. This acts as an introduction and a foreshadow of what is to come later. ' also helps the reader prepare for the climax which Shelley intended. It seems that it is only in his death that the 'Wild Spirit' could be lifted 'as a wave, a leaf, a cloud' to blow free in the 'Wild West Wind'. The 'pumice' is probably Shelley's best example of rebirth. As the rising action continues, Shelley talks about the 'Mediterranean' and its 'summer dreams'. Again, he uses soft sounding words to calm the reader into the same dream-like state of the Mediterranean. He then writes like a mourning song 'Of the dying year, to which this closing night/ Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre/ Vaulted with all they congregated might'. Percy sees his ‘dome’ as a volcano and when the 'dome' does 'burst,' it will act as a 'Destroyer and Preserver' and creator. In 'Ode to the West Wind,' Shelley uses the wind to represent driving change and a carrier for his ideas.

Form Each of the seven parts of "Ode to the West Wind" contains five stanzas--four three-line stanzas and a two-line couplet, all metered in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme in each part follows a pattern known as terza rima, the three-line rhyme scheme employed by Dante in his Divine Comedy. In the three-line terza rima stanza, the first and third lines rhyme, and the middle line does not; then the end sound of that middle line is employed as the rhyme for the first and third lines in the next stanza. The final couplet rhymes with the middle line of the last three-line stanza. Thus each of the seven parts of "Ode to the West Wind" follows this scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EE. Commentary The wispy, fluid terza rima of "Ode to the West Wind" finds Shelley taking a long thematic leap beyond the scope of "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," and incorporating his own art into his meditation on beauty and the natural world. Shelley invokes the wind magically, describing its power and its role as both "destroyer and preserver," and asks the wind to sweep him out of his torpor "as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!" In the fifth section, the poet then takes a remarkable turn, transforming the wind into a metaphor for his own art, the expressive capacity that drives "dead thoughts" like "withered leaves" over the universe, to "quicken a new birth"--that is, to quicken the coming of the spring. Here the spring season is a metaphor for a "spring" of human consciousness, imagination, liberty, or morality--all the things Shelley hoped his art could help to bring about in the human mind. Shelley asks the wind to be his spirit, and in the same movement he makes it his metaphorical spirit, his poetic faculty, which will play him like a musical instrument, the way the wind strums the leaves of the trees. The thematic implication is significant: whereas the older generation of Romantic poets viewed nature as a source of truth and authentic experience, the younger generation largely viewed nature as a source of beauty and aesthetic experience. In this poem, Shelley explicitly links nature with art by finding powerful natural metaphors with which to express his ideas about the power, import, quality, and ultimate effect of aesthetic expression.