Section Within a Canto Through Meaning
(Canto4)Section the following into two parts:
If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O uncontrollable! If even
I were in my boyhood, and could be
Section between line "A Wave" and "The Impulse" because one section describes if he was something and the other focuses on his limited power compared to the natural elements.
Make one comparison between two sentences:
If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Two sentences begin with "If I were" to add emphasis on being with the natural elements. These two sentences are similar in meaning because she states that if she was part of nature.
Determine the line break between two stanzas:
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth
Between lines "And, by the incantation" and "Scatter, as from".
(Canto5)Section the following into two parts:
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet through in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Section lines "Sweet through" and "My spirit!" because one section describes the harmonies of the West Wind, and the other is where the author asks the wind towards actions.
Make one Comparison between two sentences:
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Two sentences involve words linked with death and ghosts. You can link "unseen presence" with "ghosts" along with just "dead" and "ghosts"
Determine the line break between two stanzas:
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and plae, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who Chariotest to their dark wintry bed
Between the lines "Are driven" and "Yellow, and black,".
(Canto3)Section the following into two parts:
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
Cleave themselves into chams, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The Sapless foliage of the ocean, know
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: oh, hear!
Between line "For whose" and "Cleave themselves" because one section describes while the other is demanding/more acting towards a prophet type of language.
Make one comparison between two sentences:
Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odors plain and hill:
Two sentences invoke a sense of imagery, one of sweet buds and the other of bright colors (living hues).
Determine the line break between two stanzas:
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has changed and bowed
One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.
Between lines "I fall" and "A heavy weight".
(Canto1)Section the following into two parts:
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and plae, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who Chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The wing`ed seeds, where they lie cold an low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odors plain and hill:
Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
Section between line "Each like a corpse" and line "Thine azure sister" due to the second section now focusing on the wind.
Make one comparison between two sentences:
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: oh, hear!
Two sentences invoke a sense of terror because of "the voice" (The West Wind and change of seasons) by saying "suddenly grow gray with fear" and the next sentence saying "and tremble and despoil themselves".
Determine the line break between two stanzas:
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O uncontrollable! If even
I were in my boyhood, and could be
Between lines "A wave" and "The impulse".
(Canto2) Section the following into two parts:
Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's comotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
Angels of rain and 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
Of the horizon to the zenith's height,
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulcher,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might
Of vapors, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: oh, hear!
Section lines "On the blue surface" and "Like the bright hair" because one section describes ocean and sky while the other developes change in scenery.
Make one comparison between two sentences:
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has changed and bowed
One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.
Two sentences connect to the life struggles of the author. One describes them as "thorns of life" and the other "a heavy weight".
Determine the line break between two stanzas:
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
Of the horizon to the zenith's height,
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge
Between the lines "On the blue" and "Of some fierce Maenad".