...plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear! Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion,...lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine aery surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge...

...plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear! II Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion,...lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine aery surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge...

...Shelleys »weak grasp on the actual« wird an folgenden Strophen aus der »Ode to the West Wind« belegt: Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion,...lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine aery surge, Like the bright h.iir uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge...

...pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods . . . (Emerson, "The Rhodora") or even Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion,...Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean (Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind") When metrical poems are written down in the units called stanzas,...

...plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear! II Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,...bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height The locks of the approaching...

...können, sei ein präziser Blick auf die zweite Strophe geworfen: Thou on whose stream, 'mid the stcep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying...Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean (15-17). Das Du - zuerst einmal der Atem des Westwindes aus der ersten Strophe - garantiert die Bewegung...

...odours plain and hill: Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, Oh hear! Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,...bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad,1 even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching...

...it would be like actually to be there: Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion, I^oose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed, Shook...bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching...

...plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving every where; Destroyer and preserver; hear, O, hear! II Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,...bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of horizon to the zenith's height The locks of the approaching storm....

...plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear! II Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,...Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean, (1818) Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like...