“Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave’s intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic’s level powers”
(From Shelley’s“ Ode to the West Wind”)
Questions:
A.In what form is the poem written?
B.What does the quotation“ the sense faints picturing them” mean?
C.What idea does Shelley express in this poem?
A.The terza rima form Shelley derived from his reading of Dante.
B.Seeing the images so beautiful one feel faint to describe them.
C.He eulogizee the powerful west wind and expresses his eagemess to enjoy the boundless freedom from reality.
