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Here is a part of the poem 'Ode to the West Wind' by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Read it and identify the metaphors used in the poem. Use the following table to complete the activity.
Ode to the West Wind
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened Earth.
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
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