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Read the lines from Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind."
O thou
Who charlotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lle cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave,
Which best explains the metaphor in these lines?
OA chariot is compared to a hearse that arrives to bury the fall for the winter.
O Nature is compared to a grave that houses life during the winter.
The wind is compared to a chariot that carries the seeds of Nature to their winter grave.
The storm is compared to winter which buries Nature in a coffin of snow until Spring arrives.



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Final answer:

The metaphor in Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' compares a chariot to a hearse burying seeds for winter, symbolizing the natural cycle of life.


Explanation:

The metaphor in the lines from Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' is:

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

In these lines, the chariot symbolizes the wind carrying the winged seeds (representing life) to their dark wintry bed (grave) for the winter season, akin to a hearse carrying the deceased to their final resting place.

This metaphor invokes imagery of death and burial to depict the natural cycle of life and the transition of nature from one season to another.


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