Original: If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind?

Source: ode to the west wind

Author: British poet Shelley

Date of creation: 1819

Full text:

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:

Treat me as your harp, as the bush:

What if my leaves are falling like its own.

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

the tomb of thy mighty harmony

your extraordinary and harmonious generosity and agitation

Will take from both a deep, autumn tone,

will surely play a deep autumn rhyme with me from the forest,

Sweet through in sadness. Be Thou, Spirit Fierce,

sweet and desolate. Give me your quick energy,

My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

furious spirit! Turn into me, borrow your edge!

drive my dead thoughts over the universe

please scatter my dusty thoughts in the universe

like with'd leaves to quickly a new birth!

let it promote new life like a dead leaf!

And, by the Incantation of this verse,

Oh, please listen to this spell-like poem.

Scatter, as from an unentinguish'd heart

Just think of my heart as ashes and sparks, my words are Meng Mankind!

spread from the still-burning fire to the world!

be through my lips to awake'd earth

let the trumpet of prophecy pass through my mouth

the truth of a prophecy! Oh Wind,

wake up the sleeping earth! Oh, the west wind,

if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Extended information:

ode to the west wind has five verses, which are always sung around the west wind as a symbol of revolutionary power.

The first verse describes the power and function of the west wind, and the 14th line points out the saboteurs and defenders, which are two themes throughout the poem.

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

The third verse says that the west wind acts on waves;

The fourth verse writes about the poet's emotion caused by the west wind. The poet tells the west wind that he hopes that he will be carried away by the wind like a dead leaf. Although he is not as free as the unruly rain wind, he can share its fierce power.

in the last stanza, the poet asked the west wind to help him sweep away his old age, spread his poems to all directions, and awaken the sleeping earth. The last two sentences "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" It is predicted that the revolutionary spring is coming, which brings encouragement and hope to people living in the dark and in trouble.

The poem expresses the poet's hatred of reactionary and decadent forces, his ardent hope and firm belief that the revolution will eventually win and a bright future, and profoundly reveals the objective law that new things will surely overcome old things. The whole poem is magnificent and magnificent, with strong revolutionary romanticism characteristics. Symbols and allegories are adopted throughout, which has far-reaching implications.

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