Explain the following lines from Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”. Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

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Percy Shelley: Poems

Explain the following lines from Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”. Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

Explain the following lines from Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”.
Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

Asked by Dadhich S #450994 on 6/20/2015 8:44 AM

Last updated by Aslan on 6/20/2015 5:12 PM

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Answered by Aslan on 6/20/2015 5:12 PM

The poem captures the wild spirit of the West Wind. The wind is destroyer and preserver, chaos and master. Basically this passage uses celestial images to personify the clouds moving across the sky.

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