Percy Shelley: Poems

Explain these line frrom Shelley's "Ode to the west wind": Angles of rain and lighting : there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

Angles of rain and lighting : there are spread

On the blue surface of thine airy surge,

Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

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The speaker continues to describe the West Wind. This time, he describes the wind as having clouds spread through it the way dead leaves float in a stream. Leaves fall from the branches of the trees, and these clouds fall from the "branches" of the sky and sea, which work together like "angels of rain and lighting" to create clouds and weather systems. The speaker creates a complex simile describing the strom that the West wind is bringing. The "locks of the approaching strom"- the thunderclouds - are spread through the airy "blue surface" of the West Wind in the same way that the wild locks of hair on Maenad wave around in the air.©

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Vmou MAEG-04 Unit -8 Percy Byshhe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark. Page no. 134