O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, which is kind of strange, because in Greek mythology the situation was the exact opposite - the west wind brought spring, not autumn. In other poems and works, the situation is quite different - see for example Chaucer, who wrote of the "swete breth" of Zephyr, or Shakespeare, who said in ...

2023年9月12日 · (West wind (from the sea) bringing wind to end extended famine:) "Now Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower.” [A prophetic declaration - no rain has occurred in 3 years, but Elijah is saying he prophetically "hears" what has not yet arrived] So Ahab went up to eat and drink.

2024年7月10日 · There fair-haired Rhadamanthus reigns, and men lead an easier life than any where else in the world, for in Elysium there falls not rain, nor hail, nor snow, but Oceanus breathes ever with a West wind that sings softly from the sea, and gives fresh life to all men.

The new-money people of West Egg, on the other hand, are more ostentatious about their hedonism. In essence, yes, you have caught the gist of the phrase. Daisy is aware, as is Nick, of the fact that the more conservative cultural mores are in play in West Egg, but the people there are closer to openly breaking free of them, of shrugging them off.

2021年5月30日 · The wind and current at this point are both tending to go from south to north. They're still on the west side of the island, where the current is pushing them northwards. So it seems that the sentence you highlight is simply mistaken, and it …

2017年4月20日 · Later, Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (1819) would use the terza rima, famous from Dante's Divine Comedy. What makes "Ode on Melancholy" an ode is that it takes the form of an address ("No, no, go not to Lethe"), its rhymes (although the rhyme scheme is not entirely regular) and its iambic lines.

2017年6月12日 · A lot of Romantic poetry (for e.g. Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" and Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn") uses words like thou, thee and thy even though these had fallen out of use in ... poetry user392289

2020年10月9日 · Now there is a certain cliff, smooth and sheer towards the sea, on the border of Gortyn, in the misty deep, where the South-West Wind drives a great wave against the left headland, towards Phaestus, and a little rock keeps back the mighty water.

2023年4月13日 · As a result they may as well “lie to and repair”. This is an extension of the nautical metaphor; when a ship lies to, it steers into the wind so that it comes to a stop. It is not connected to the more common use of “lie” as in “to tell falsehoods”. “Repair” is used here in the sense of “to come together and rally”.

2020年9月21日 · There is a recurring mantra in the book that goes something like "From west to east the track goes", and then something about the wind and the plains. It is repeated several times, possibly every chapter. The climate is very harsh, …