Original text: If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Source: "Ode to the West Wind"

Author: British poet Shelley

Creation time: 1819

Full original text:

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Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:

What if my leaves are like falling its own!

Even though my leaves have fallen, what does it matter!

The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Your extraordinary harmonious generosity

Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,

You will be able to play the deep autumn rhythm with me from the forest,

Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,

Sweet but desolate. Give me your swift energy,

My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

The furious spirit! Become me and lend me your edge!

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

Please scatter my dusty thoughts over the universe

Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth!

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Let it promote new life like a dead leaf!

And, by the incantation of this verse,

Oh, please listen to this incantation-like verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth

Let the words of my heart be like ashes and sparks

Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

From the unquenched fire to Spread in the world!

Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth

Let the trumpet of prophecy pass through my mouth

The trumpet of a prophecy! Oh Wind,

Awaken the sleepy earth! Oh, west wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Extended information:

The poem "Ode to the West Wind" has the first five stanzas, which are always sung around the west wind as a symbol of revolutionary power.

The first stanza describes the power of the west wind and its role, and the 14th line points out the destroyer and the protector, which are two themes throughout the poem.

The second stanza uses clouds, rain, hail, and lightning to describe the power of the west wind;

The third stanza describes the effect of the west wind on the waves;

The fourth verse describes the poet's emotion due to the west wind. The poet said to the west wind that he hoped that he could be carried away by the wind like a dead leaf. Although he was not as free as the unruly rain and wind, he could still share some of its fierceness. The power of;

In the last stanza, the poet asks the west wind to help him sweep away the twilight, spread his poems to all directions, and wake up the sleeping earth. The last two sentences, "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" predict that the revolutionary spring is coming, bringing encouragement and hope to people living in darkness and difficulties.

The poem expresses the poet's hatred for the reactionary and decadent forces, his fervent hope and firm belief in the ultimate victory of the revolution and a bright future, and profoundly reveals the objective law that new things will surely defeat old things.

The whole poem is majestic and magnificent, with strong characteristics of revolutionary romanticism. Symbols and allegorical techniques are used throughout the poem, with far-reaching implications.

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