Question

Which of the following excerpts best illustrates the mood of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"? A. "Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!" B. "Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, …" C. "The sapless foliage of the ocean, know Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear, …" D. "If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud …"

Answer 1

"Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, …"

Step-by-step explanation:

In "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley the mood is dynamic forward movement, and it uses the wind to make reference to this movement as a destruction of the old and a renewal of all, in order to achieve this the line that best illustrates it is "Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, …"

Answer 2

B. "Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, …"

Through the poem Shelley uses fear and monstrous comparisons to describe the west wind as something dark, spooky, and basically evil. This line, comparing the wind to ghosts, pretty much sums up the mood of the poem and how he feels about the wind.