Read the lines from Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind."
O thou
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave,
Which best explains the metaphor in these lines?
1.The wind is compared to a chariot that carries the seeds of Nature to their winter grave.
2.The storm is compared to winter which buries Nature in a coffin of snow until Spring arrives.
3.Nature is compared to a grave that houses life during the winter.
4.A chariot is compared to a hearse that arrives to bury the fall for the winter.
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.A chariot is compared to a hearse that arrives to bury the fall for the winter.
1.The wind is compared to a chariot that carries the seeds of Nature to their winter grave
This is correct, it’s not a literal chariot, the wind acts as a chariot
1.The wind is compared to a chariot that carries the seeds of Nature to their winter grave.
The correct answer is 1.The wind is compared to a chariot that carries the seeds of Nature to their winter grave.
To arrive at this answer, we can analyze the descriptions used in the lines. The phrase "chariotest to their dark wintry bed" suggests that the wind is being compared to a chariot. This chariot is carrying something, and in this case, it is the "winged seeds" of nature. The phrase "where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave" further emphasizes the comparison between the seeds and corpses within graves. Therefore, the metaphor being employed in these lines is the comparison of the wind to a chariot carrying the seeds of nature to their winter grave.