Shelley's :"Ode to the West Wind": Recited from Memory by Dr. Rafey Habib

[luxvoyager1111]

poems have many facets and are rarely about only one thing, so i do not think that literal interpretations are ignorant...poetry's ability to shift and encompass many things at once is part of what's so amazing and moving about it. this poem is really beautiful in it's expressions of nature and the innate spirit, and of the social and political issues of the past...

[Elibobbob]

I think it's very ignorant to believe this is about the wind. Since when has a poem been about it's title, it's a metaphore, in this case it's a symbol, a symbol of 'revolution' wind of change. The west wind is a rosicrucian symbol for revolution, in many arts, Shakesphere (francis bacon) sonnets, Boticellie's Primavera & The Birth of Venus (zephyus) This poem is about pagan repression by christians & he's saying in symbols 'hear me' but no one is, they're just hearing the wind. It's rosicrucian

[Borealis2007]

awesome reading...love this poem...

[michaelhogan100]

Lovely reading!

[Esqpainting]

I absolutely LOVE this Poem! It has a special significance for me.

Thank you!

"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams...."

It gives me chills.

" I fall upon the thorns of life, and bleed"

And I could go on all day.

I think that, after seeing this, I'm going to live in Ode to the West Wind for a while, like a wounded fawn seeking refuge in the Forest.

[mhabib3]

@Esqpainting Thank you...bless you...

[a198326]

touching you read!

[ferlinghetti]

beautyful, beautyful

[GraysonSuorez]

Neat. Awesome readin--thanks.

[Soraxever]

beautifull poem, nature for shelley <3

[RattusCorvus]

that was awesome! thank you

[glidiamartazzz]

that's great! very good intonation! i'll try to read like him for my next english oral exam about this poem!

[dooglorth]

Well read, great poem, thank you, M

[jazzie132]

so boring, and the content is so ssad. it makes me sad

[plumucci]

Rafey, that was really stunning. I am so taken by your voice. I can't wait to show this to my classes. carol plum-ucci