The West Wind Symbolizes the relationship between?

A. people %26amp; nature


B. people %26amp; the four seasons


C. winter's death %26amp; spring's rebirth


D. people %26amp; spring





O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being


Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead


Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,


Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,


Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O thou


Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed


The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,


Each like a corpse within its grave, until


Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow


Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill


(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)


With living hues and odours plain and hill;


Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;


Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!


Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,


Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,


Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean,


Angels of rain and lightning! there are spread


On the blue surface of thine airy surge,


Like the bright hair uplifted from the head


Of some fierce Mænad, even from the dim verge


Of the horizon to the zenith's height,


The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge


Of the dying year, to which this closing night


Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,


Vaulted with all thy congregated might


Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere


Black rain, and fire, and hail, will burst: O hear!


Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams


The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,


Lull'd by the coil of his crystàlline streams,


Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay,


And saw in sleep old palaces and towers


Quivering within the wave's intenser day,


All overgrown with azure moss, and flowers


So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou


For whose path the Atlantic's level powers


Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below


The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear


The sapless foliage of the ocean, know


Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,


And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear!


If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;


A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share


The impulse of thy strength, only less free


Than thou, O uncontrollable! if even


I were as in my boyhood, and could be


The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,


As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed


Scarce seem'd a vision—I would ne'er have striven


As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.


O! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!


I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!


A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd


One too like thee—tameless, and swift, and proud.


Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:


What if my leaves are falling like its own?


The tumult of thy mighty harmonies


Will take from both a deep autumnal tone,


Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,


My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!


Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,


Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;


And, by the incantation of this verse,


Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth


Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!


Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth


The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,


If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

The West Wind Symbolizes the relationship between?
The answer is C.





The poet immediately identifies the west wind as autumn - compared with it's sister wind of spring.


"Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow"





Reading further down, the poet finally inserts themself in the poem


"If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;"


and then gets to the point...





"Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,


Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;


...


If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"





-C. winter's death %26amp; spring's rebirth -
Reply:A