Percy Shelley: Poems

In “Ode to the West Wind,” what does Shelley call the wind's “azure sister” and why?

from the poem ode to the west wind
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In “Ode to the West Wind,” Shelley calls the spring wind the “azure sister” of the West Wind. “Azure” an older word for the color blue. Shelly uses it here in relation to the blue skies that often come with the arrival of spring.