Callie (calldudl@mars.utm.edu) from goochlab03.utm.edu at 09/18/96 02:05PM
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    In "Ode to West Wind" on page 676, What is the meaning of the repeated line "O, hear!" in the couplets? Is it just for rhyme and rhythm's sake? as an eerie cry? to hear the wind? for the wind to hear? I've noticed reference to the Eolian harp or lyre in many of Shelly's poems as well as several other of the Romantic writers' works. Was this a type of universal symbol (or "Romantic" symbol) of nature or the natural?