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英美文学欣赏TheAnalysisofShelleysOdetotheWestWind

CentralChinaNormalUniversity

CoursePaperforUndergraduates

TitleTheAnalysisofShelley’sOdetotheWestWind

School（Department）SchoolofForeignLanguages

MajorTourismManagement

MinorEnglishLanguageandLiterature

Grade2010

Name吴思凝

StudentNumber2010214419

TeacherXiaoXiong

Score

December,2012

TheAnalysisofShelley’sOdetotheWestWind

Abstract

OdetotheWestWindisoneofthemostfamouslyricpoemswrittenbyPercyByssheShelley,thegreatBritishromanticpoetin19thcentury.Inthispoem,thepoetinordertoshowthewonderofthesky,thelandandtheocean,heusedalotofrichimaginationsandnewallegories.Inhiswriting,Shelleyreliedmainlyonsymbolicfeatures.Thewestwindisnotonlythenature’swind,butalsothewindofrevolution.Inthesurface,Shelleydescribedthenaturalwind.Actually,heexpectedthestormofrevolutionthroughthewestwind.Byusingsymbolicfeatures,thewestwindbecomesmoreimpressiveanddeep-going.

Actually,thesearebasedonthespecifichistoricalperiodandtheenvironment.Throughanalysisonthebackgroundofthispoem,thisarticlemainlyanalyzesfromsomemajoraspectslikeitsstructurecharacteristicsandfiguresofspeech,especiallyanalyzesthepoet’semotions.Aboveall,inthepoem,Shelleypraisedthewestwind,expressedhisdesiretogetridoftherealityandtoenjoyfreedom,andshowedhisoptimismonhuman’sfuture.

KeyWords:

Shelley;OdetotheWestWind;analysis;appreciation

1.Introduction

PercyByssheShelleyisoneofthemosttalentedlyricpoetsinEnglishliterature.Hehasbeencalled“Oneofthebestartistsofusall”byWilliamWordsworth,andByronpraiseshim“WithoutexceptionthebestandleastselfishmanIeverknew”.Sowecanseethathewasoneoftheoutstandingpoetsinthepoeticworld,andthiseraisknownastheromanticismperiod.

TheromanticismisanimportantbranchofliteraturewhichthoroughlymanifestedthesocialcharacteristicofBritishduringitsperiod,andsymbolizedforthepeople’srequestthroughliterature（WangTing,2011:

224）.Inthehistoryofliterature,romanticismisgenerallyregardedasthethoughtthatdesignatesaliteraryandphilosophytheorywhichtendstoseetheindividualastheverycenterofalllifeandallexperiences（WangXuefang,2012:

224）.Sotheintimaterelationshipbetweenliteratureandsocietywasclearlydisplayed.TheromanticismdevelopedextremelyveryfastinBritish,wecanseetheessenceofromanticismreflectedspecificsituationofthatperiodandtheneedsofsociety.

OdetotheWestWindisoneofmasterpiecepoemsofShelley,writtenin1819.Thispoemhasfiveparts,respectivelyintheformofasonnet.Atthistime,thepoetShelleylivedinItaly，andwasathispeakofwriting.Intheearly19thcentury,scientificsocialismdidnotborn,andthecounterforcefromfeudalnoblesandthecapitalistclasswerestillverypowerful.Sothepoemunavoidablehasthecircumlocutoryandsadtone.Asapioneerofsocialismthought,Shelleyshowedhisoptimismontheprospectsofrevolutionandhuman’sfutureallalong,hebelievedthatthejusticeissuretoovercometheevil.Generallyspeaking,therhythmofthepoemissevereandunyielding.

Aboveall,wecanknowthathispoemissaidtobethereflectionofShelley’sfreedomandthespiritoftheage.Shelleycreated“OwildWestWind,thoubreathofAutumn’sbeing”bythecombinationofhisownlifeandthewildwind.Itisfullytruethatthewestwindisthedestroyeraswellasthepreserver.Itisthemagnificentsectionsandchaptersthatcryouttherhythmoflivesandthedanceofsouls.Sowecanrealizethetheme,Shelley’swestwindisasaspiritthatcandestroyeverycreatureinautumninordertoreviveinthespringtime（WangTing,2011:

224）.

2.TheBackgroundofromanticismandPercyShelley’spoem

Inthelateof18thcentury,aftertheFrenchrevolutionandtheEuropeanpantheism,suchastheFrance’sEnlightenmentidealismandreturningtothenature,Englishliteraturehasbroughtamassiveliteraturemovement,itwascalledRomanticismLiterature.AtthattimeinEurope,manycountrieslabormovementsandtherevolutionmovementswereblustery.TheworkingclassinEnglandstrivedforitsownrightstosubsistence.Meanwhile,thebourgeoisiewasinthefiercestruggleforthegovernment,fightfortheirrights,too.Undersuchconditions,akindofpatrioticpoetwasboughtout,theyusedliteraturetoawakenpeople,andwecalledthem“RomanticismPoets”.Theywerefullofcriticalspiritsandreligiousfeelings,andsymbolismwastheirworksmaincharacteristics.

Therearetwogenresoftheromanticism,oneisLakePoetsandtheotherisPositivePoets.Shelleyisoneofthemostrepresentativepoetsofthepositive,and“Odetot