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Unit 14: Ode to the West Wind by PB Shelley

7. Why is wildness so important here? The West Wind is wild, the clouds it blows around Notes
are like the hair of crazy Mænads, and the speaker wishes he were also “uncontrollable.”
What can be created through wildness that isn’t possible with control? Why does a poem
that emphasizes wildness have such a controlled form and meter?
8. Why does this poem praise the West Wind? (As opposed to the East Wind, the North
Wind, or the Winter Wind...)

14.12 Further Readings

Books The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin (London, 1847), p. 323
Bysshe is pronounced as if written bish.
Isadora Duncan, “My Life “, W. W. Norton & Co.,1996, pp. 15, 134.
Thomas Weber, “Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor,” Cambridge University Press,
2004, pp. 28–29. Print.
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin (London, 1847)
Coleman, Elliott, editor: Poems of Byron, Keats, and Shelley. New York: International
Collectors Library, 1967.

Online links www.w3.org/WAI/eval/considerations.html

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