Fragment: Zephyrus the Awakener
Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean, Zephyr, whom to thy cloud or cave No thought can trace! speed with thy gentle motion!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean, Zephyr, whom to thy cloud or cave No thought can trace! speed with thy gentle motion!
Shelley’s fragment is a brief, urgent invocation to the west wind, Zephyr, asking it to arrive and stir something deep within. The speaker calls the wind the “awakener of the spirit’s ocean” — a striking image for the vast, inner world of feeling and imagination that can lie dormant until something…
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