When Winds that Move not its Calm Surface Sweep
The calm sea tempts the restless speaker away from land, but roaring waves and foam turn the speaker toward the woods. After judging a fisherman's life an unhappy choice, the speaker plans to rest beneath a plane tree beside a murmuring brook.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 189 words
First lines
Tan ala tan glaukan otan onemos atrema Balle-k.t.l.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The speaker responds to the calm and turbulent sea, wind sounding through pines, and a brook beneath a plane tree.
- Lyric Poetry — A first-person speaker expresses changing desires and an anticipated rest in a single continuous passage of rhymed verse.
Tags
nature · sea · storms · woods · rest · lyric poetry
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 189 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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