 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...  Poems, selected and arranged by S.A. Brooke - Pàgina 279per Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Elizabeth Pepper - 2002 - 52 pàgines
...delicious feeling to be borne along by its force. The poet Shelley in his Ode to the West Wind wrote, "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!" The familiar Irish salutation: "May the wind be always at your back" is possibly a folk memory of this... | |
 | Laura M. Giusti - 2002 - 196 pàgines
...libertà giovanile; si augura che arrivi anche per lui, come nella natura, una rinascita primaverile.1 (( Drive my dead thoughts over the universe / like withered leaves to quicken a new birthl )) È possibile anche una lettura politica dell'opera, in cui la rigenerazione rappresenterebbe... | |
 | Morton P. Levitt - 2002 - 230 pàgines
...peremptory "For hear Allmightest"; and the ashes that were balanced with sparks of new life in Shelley: Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! are now only dispersed ashes disguised as sashes: "their sashes flying sish behind them." (Sounds and... | |
 | David Rothenberg, Wandee J. Pryor - 2003 - 340 pàgines
...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! This is an instrument that leads so many to genuinely complex feelings. Berlioz heard one and challenged... | |
 | 辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 pàgines
...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 quiken a new birth! And,by the incantation of this verse? Scatter,as from an unextinguished hearth... | |
 | Onno Oerlemans - 2004 - 268 pàgines
...the words as texts and spoken words, with physical form and presence, rather than as ideas or ideals: Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered...unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! (ll. 63-7) The effect Shelley hopes for his poetry is like that of the economy of plant life, which... | |
 | Peter Sharpe - 2004 - 400 pàgines
...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...the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!100 The spirit in Shelley cries "absorb me!" not "exalt me!" It is in death, in dying, that life... | |
 | Milind S. Malshe - 2003 - 210 pàgines
...the leaves dead Are driven, ... Destroyer and Preserver; hear, oh, hear! Make me thy lyre, ... ... Be thou, Spirit fierce. My spirit! Be thou me. impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips... | |
 | Bert Cardullo - 2004 - 376 pàgines
...what's dead or desiccated, as in "Ode to the West Wind." Here Shelley writes that its current will "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, / Like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth." That birth may be connected with the seasonal force of renewal in nature, the "unextinguished" political... | |
 | Ed Rampell - 2005 - 354 pàgines
...Shelley's Ode to the West Wind: "...by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" The... | |
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