"Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

[DimitrijFedorovic]

I always appreciate your work, but I think that you read this wonderful poem too much fast.

[nikolauzelac]

Thank you sir !

[sonofwalt]

Extremely well read. I had a professor who said this poem was very hard to read, as it almost had to become a wail. You wail well. :)

Thanks for helping these old poems to come alive.

[theusaisgay]

The pronounciation of "wind" is not correct,or better,is not correct for this poetry.

[SpokenVerse]

It used to be pronounced to rhyme with "behind". The compromise is to pronouce it that way when it it has to rhyme. Do you understand?

[theusaisgay]

@SpokenVerse

Yes,I do.

Thank you.

[nishanasujith]

@SpokenVerse yes you are right

[cengime]

@SpokenVerse Shelley frequently used eye rhymes which did not sound alike when pronounced, and reading mankind/wind/behind as an exact rhyme is forced, as it would be to read exact rhymes into there/ear in On Death, stone/frown in Ozymandias, or below/brow in To the Emperors of Russia and Austria Who Eyed the Battle of Austerlitz from the Heights whilst Buonaparte Was Active in the Thickest of the Fight.

[SpokenVerse]

@cengime Blow, blow thou Winter Wind

Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude.

"Normal pronunciation evolution made this word rhyme with kind and rind (Donne rhymes it with mind), but shifted to a short vowel, probably from influence of windy, where the short vowel is natural. A sad loss for poets, who now must rhyme it only with sinned and a handful of weak words. "...Etymology Dictionary

[anaruxandra]

You have no idea how helpful your recitacions are!! I undersatnd the poems far better now!!

[savedbydeath]

Bravo Bravo!

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[kanij87]

Marvelous, best interpretation I've hard yet. Thanks for posting.