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Part A

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?

Line of the poem

Comparing Person/thing

Metaphor (Compared to)

Reason to use the metaphors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created: 2 months ago | Updated: 2 months ago
Updated: 2 months ago

Line of the poem

The person/object compared

Metaphor (Compared to)

Reason to use the metaphors

1

The speaker

lyre

The speaker wants to be an instrument of change.

2

The speakers' age

Leaves

Indicating the speakers' decaying age

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