Which passage from "ode to the west wind" best illustrates the ultimate request has for the wind? explain.

a - "Be through my lips to unawakened earth / The trumpet of a prophecy!"

b-"Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, and cloud!"

c-"I would ne'er have striven / As thud with thee in prayer in my sore need."

d-"If I were a dead leaf thou mightiest bear"

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Arabella Krueger

25 July, 12:24

Which passage from "ode to the west wind" best illustrates the ultimate request has for the wind? explain.

a - "Be through my lips to unawakened earth / The trumpet of a prophecy!"

b-"Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, and cloud!"

c-"I would ne'er have striven / As thud with thee in prayer in my sore need."

d-"If I were a dead leaf thou mightiest bear"

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Jillian Thornton · Answer 1

A. "Be through my lips to unawakened earth / The trumpet of a prophecy!"

Explanation:

This last direct address to the wind, coming at the end of the poem, is like the climax of the poet's appeal to the wind