The wind: whether it's gust or gale, tempest or typhoon, cyclone or zephyr, poets find inspiration in this mighty, magical force of nature. Let's take a look at a poem by a nineteenth-century English poet:
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.
~ Christina Rossetti
Hundreds of years and many breezy days later, poets are still wondering about the wind. Check out a Lafayette Original that makes good use of personification, a figure of speech giving human qualities to things that are not alive-- the wind, for example:
The Wind
Oh wind. You are a very loud person,
Outspoken.
You howl for no reason,
You get very emotional,
Especially when it rains.
You bang on my window and
Keep me up.
Oh wind
You make mankind run amok.
~ Kiara W.
The wind: we can't see it, but we feel it. Poetry captures that elusive feeling and invites us to see the world in a different way.
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