Question

Read the lines from Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind."

O thou
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave,

Which best explains the metaphor in these lines?

1.The wind is compared to a chariot that carries the seeds of Nature to their winter grave.


2.The storm is compared to winter which buries Nature in a coffin of snow until Spring arrives.

3.Nature is compared to a grave that houses life during the winter.

4.A chariot is compared to a hearse that arrives to bury the fall for the winter.

Answer 1

Telling me no one has answered this in a decade😭💀

Answer 2

.A chariot is compared to a hearse that arrives to bury the fall for the winter.

Answer 3

1.The wind is compared to a chariot that carries the seeds of Nature to their winter grave

This is correct, it’s not a literal chariot, the wind acts as a chariot