Ode to the West Wind versus Life Will

It Is amazing to see the slmllarltles between their rimes Ode to the western hemisphere Wind and Life give nonwith bear outing the differences In times & cultures as well as the fact that Elshabby didnt know any other quarrel than Arabic was thus Indirectly influenced by the romantic school through his assoclatlon with Apollo school. both Shelly, in his Ode to the westside Wind and Elshabby, in his Life Will follow the tradition of romantic poets in recognizing disposition as a unmanageable force capable of making a qualifying in our life. Shelly both admires and fears the changes temperaments rebellious forces can wreak.Elshabby, however, is consumed by the hope that hatful forget take their cue from nature and be tot up so fully rebellious against oppression till they eliminate all sorts of oppression. Shelleys Ode to the West Wind expresses the hope that its spoken language allow inspire and influence those who read or hear it. Perhaps more than anything else, Shel ley wanted his mental object of reform and revolution spread, and the scent becomes the trope for spreading the word of change through the poet-prophet figure. The poem allegorizes the lineament of the poet as the voice of change and revolution.It discusses political change, revolution, and role of the poet. Life Will by Elshabby is unity of the great revolutionary poems scripted in Arabs world. It still lives till now as it had recently inspired the Arab arising Revolutions, just as it had inspired revolution against colonization throughout the Arab world in the previous century, when it was written at 1933. The poet uses his verses to evoke people to revolt against and get rid of their oppressor, as If he wants his nation to bawl at and eliminate them till there Is nothing left to oppress the people.Sometimes, the poet feels as If his people argon not as responsive to his outcry as he may wish, and he doesnt mislay hope. He Is consumed by hope believing his nation will r evolt at last happy chance the chains with a trem residualous will that cant be efeated. Both poems argon similar In their neoclassic structure & romantic content. Ode to the West Wind consists of five stanzas written In terza rlma. Each stanza consists of four tercets (ABA, BCB, CDC, DED) and a rhyming couplet (EE). The structure & rhyme confirm to classical tradltlon & resembles Dantes Dlvlne Comedy.The poem follows the romantic tradltlon of glvlng nature and Its elements life. It begins with three stanzas describing the winds effects upon earth, air, and ocean. The last two stanzas are Shelley direct monologue to the wind, asking for its ower, to lift him worry a leaf, a cloud or a wave and make him its companion in its wanderings. He asks the wind to take his thoughts and spread them all over the winter comes, can Spring be removed behind? Life Will consists of six stanzas with a mono rhyme for distributively verse ends with an (R). Also, the verses are divided into two ha lves according to classic Arabic poetry tradition.The declamatory beginning of the poem is some other feature of classic Arabic poetry. Then Elshabby introduces the elements of nature and their spirit as the speaker of the poem masking an indirect nfluence by Romanticism. Almotaqareb poetry bahr and the (R) mono rhyme lend a quick tempo to the poem absent from Shellys Ode. The poem is full of certainty shown in the word AN which means must and stressed by the last verse 131 As opposed tothe uncertainty at the end of Shellys Ode to the West Wind If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?Though both poems give life to nature its elements, each expresses this romantic belief in a different manner. Ode to the West Wind personifies the west wind both as a Destroyer and a Preserver. It is seen as a great supply of nature that destroys in order to create, that kills the unhealthy and the decaying to make way for the new and the fresh. In Life Will, Elshabby introduces the wind as a lin k between inspiration and revolution. It is standardizedned to the revolutionary wind insides him. He stresses that peoples will to revolt is the real life that can change destiny and destroy the chains oppressing people.Shellys Ode shows the effect of the delirious West Wind on land, sky & sea. The offshoot few lines contain sinister elements, such as leaves dead. These leaves sponsor as ghosts fleeing from something that panics them. Other allusions to death are chariotest and corpse within its grave. He contrasts the west wind to the lazuline sister of the spring a reference to the east wind whose living hues and odours evoke a potent contrast to the colours of death. The skys clouds are like earths decaying leaves.They too are numerous in number like the dead leaves. Through this reference the landscape is recalled again. The clouds are Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean. The clouds can also be seen s Angels of rain, like messengers bringing change. Here, t he west wind is two things at once source he is dirge/Of the dying year singing a funeral song around the year coming to an end and second he is a prophet of tumult whose prediction is decisive a prophet who does not only bring black rain, and fire, and hail, but who Will burst it.The locks of the approaching storm are the messengers of this bursting the clouds. Elshabby doesnt describe scenery so much as recount what the elements of life advised him. The land speaks to him. She tells him she likes mbitious revolutionary people and curses dead people who want the status quo kept. The poet calls the land mother invoking an intimate relationship between them. He then declares what each element of nature advised the wind roared among valleys, mountains and trees that achieving ambitions means discarding caution and expending the effort to reach the final examination goal.He contrasts this with people who wont try to climb up the mountains and thus live forever beneath their dreams. He negotiation about autumn, drinking wine, sea and seeds stressing revival and the cycle f nature and describing spring and its beauty. The turning-point in Shellys poem is the third stanza. Whereas Shelley had began by accepting the cycle of nature death which brings life back, he now turns to contemplative reminiscence as an alternative possibility of transcendence.He gives an image of nature so sweet that one feels alludes to his fear of the revolution that would bring about change even while he is wishing for this change. Whereas the first three stanzas began with O wild West Wind and Thou and were clearly directed to the wind, there is a change in the ourth stanza. The focus is no more on the Wind, but on the speaker who says If I Shelley wishes to direct himself with the wind, although he believes that were a he cannot do that Oh, lift me up as a wave, a leaf, a cloud.Because he suddenly remembers his inability as a human to soar, he fall upon the thorns of life and bleed . Elshabby also aligns himself with nature. First, he calls earth as his mother. Then he states that the wind and thunder of revolution live in his boldness allowing him to listen to the music of rain as if showing him how nature moves and works all round him to move on people to do the same to move and work to revolt against oppression. He then asks darkness about hope, but it doesnt answer. It is the lyre that answers.It says that winter brings death but the seeds hide under ground waiting for spring to come alive. There is another dialogue between destiny and elements of nature. Destiny asks when will hope come and spring comes to answer her with his revival of life. All through this stanza, darkness, winter and death stands for oppression while spring and seeds stand for hope of coming free. He ends the oem with a repetition of the first stanza stressing the idea that destiny must & will respond to those who has ambition for freedom & change.Shelly ends his poem with a questio n If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?. This is of course a rhetorical question because spring does come after winter, but the if suggests that it might not come if the changeover is not strong and extensive enough. Thus the question has a deeper meaning and does not only mean the change of seasons, but is a reference to death and rebirth as well. Shellys Ode is about the role of the poet as the agent of olitical and moral change.In this, it resembles Elshabbys poem which invoked the people to revolt against oppression. Both describe nature and its elements as alive, but where Shelly is both admiring and in owe of nature, Elshabby is more direct in invoking the power of nature and revoking caution and fear. Also, where Shelly wishes to have the power of the wind, even though he believes it is impossible, Elshabby aligns himself completely with nature and encourage others to follow his example as the only way they can attain life will which can achieve their dreams nd hopes.El shabbys poem also evokes more hope & certainty of achieving this hope, ambition & valor as well as disregard & rejection of caution & fear while achieving it in contrast to Shelly perplexity & fear of change. I might be biased in my view that Elshabbys Life Will is stronger and livelier than Shellys Ode to the West Wind, but in that I might be pardoned as Elshabbys Life Will has been resuscitate with the current Arab Spring giving us renewed hope for change and freedom and coming more alive in the process than Shellys ode can ever hope to be.