Excerpts from Chinese and English versions:
The noise of your powerful harmony
Your unusually harmonious generosity and excitement
From a deep, autumn tone,
Will be able to play a deep autumn rhyme with me from the forest,
Sweetness in sadness. You are a fierce soul,
Sweet and sad. Give me your quick energy,
My spirit! Be me, impulsive person!
Angry elves! Become me, borrow your edge!
Drive my dead thoughts into the universe
Please scatter my dusty thoughts to the universe.
Just like withered leaves, accelerate rebirth!
Let it give birth to new life like dead leaves!
According to the spell in this section,
Oh, please listen to this incantation poem.
Scattered, as a fireplace that never goes out.
Just put my heart, like ashes and mars.
Ashes and sparks, my words are on earth!
Spread from the still burning fire to the world!
Through my lips, to wake up the earth
Let the trumpet of prophecy sound from my mouth.
The horn of prophecy! Oh, the wind,
Wake up the sleeping earth! Oh, west wind,
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Shelley wrote many excellent lyric poems, which reflected the author's democratic thought and fighting spirit. In Song for the British, he severely reprimanded the British ruling class, called them Xiong Feng, and pointed out that they were parasites who exploited the British people.
The poet called on the people to take up arms to defend themselves: sow-but don't let tyrants search; Looking for wealth-don't let swindlers do it; Weave-don't knit cotton-padded clothes for lazy people; Forge weapons-protect yourself.
Apart from Singing to the English, his political lyrics and The Tyranny of Masked Parade solemnly protested the bloody atrocities of the bourgeois government. The Spanish people launched a revolutionary movement against alien oppression and feudal autocracy, and Shelley dedicated a poem "ode to the west wind" to the Spanish people. The poet encouraged the working people to know their own strength and get up to change their slave situation.
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Creative background:
Ode to the west wind is one of Shelley's "three great poems", written in 18 19. At that time, the workers' movements and revolutionary movements in European countries were surging. In order to fight for their right to exist, the British working class is waging a heroic struggle against the bourgeoisie, with machine destruction and strikes one after another.
18 19 In August, 80,000 workers in Manchester held a massive demonstration, and the reactionary authorities competed to send troops to brutally suppress it, creating the famous Petrou Massacre in history. Shelley, full of grief and indignation, wrote a long poem "Masked Parade Tyranny" and made a solemn protest against the bloody atrocities of the bourgeois government.
Since the collapse of Napoleon's monarchy and the restoration of Bourbon Dynasty in France, class contradictions have been extremely acute, and the broad masses of the people are brewing a revolutionary struggle against the feudal restoration forces. The disintegration of Napoleon's empire also greatly promoted the Spanish people's revolutionary movement against alien oppression and feudal autocracy. 18 19 1 Finally, the gunfire of an armed uprising rang out.
On the eve of the armed uprising, Heine presented an ode to the Spanish people and sounded the horn for the Spanish revolution. In Italy and Greece, the national liberation movement is in the ascendant. Shortly after the publication of Shelley's ode to the west wind, vigorous armed uprisings broke out in these two countries.
Facing the revolutionary situation in Europe, Shelley was encouraged and excited. At this time, triggered by a stormy natural scene, this uncontrollable passion immediately rushed out of the chest and poured into a passionate and generous singing. At this time, the poet was living in Italy and was at the peak of his creation.