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The inaugural "O" is only confirmed as vocative, that is, when the first junctural lurch of "O W" is rounded out by the equally opened-mouthed apposition that results in the line's coming phonetic increment, "thou(w) breath of autumn's being." Latency and fulfillment seem almost at one in verse wording. More than this, the press of enunciation is aimed toward the very object of its own discursive gesture across the drift from the phonetically denominated "double-u" to its single and more immediately recognized graphic variant. With the titular W's wafting over the line in self-propelled graphic gusts, the first of these mere W-ords sweeps up the prearticulate "O" into an airborne but strictly lexical momentum. But writing, scribed marks, is what the intonation remains-from the first tripled whoosh of strained onomatopoetic alliteration forward. "O wild West Wind," writes Shelley in the mode of high-Romantic incantation. Early Shelley: Vulgarisms, Politics, and Fractals.Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age.The 'Honourable Characteristic of Poetry': Two Hundred Years of Lyrical Ballads.

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