a north wind comes from the direction of north.
a north wind comes from the direction of north.
which direction does a north wind come from?
north
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a north wind is a wind that originates in the north and blows south. the north wind has had historical and literal significance, since it often signals cold weather and seasonal change in the northern hemisphere. in the southern hemisphere, especially in southern australia, the north wind is a hot wind which often leads to bushfires.









































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bullet::::- in greek mythology, boreas was the god of the north wind and bringer of cold winter air.









































bullet::::- in inuit mythology, negagfok represents "the north wind” or, more eloquently, “the spirit that likes cold and stormy weather."
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whereas the cantos one to three began with "o wild west wind" and "thou" (15, 29) and were clearly directed to the wind, there is a change in the fourth canto. the focus is no more on the "wind", but on the speaker who says "if i ..." (43–44). until this part, the poem has appeared very anonymous and was only concentrated on the wind and its forces so that the author of the poem was more or less forgotten. pirie calls this "the suppression of personality" which finally vanishes at that part of the poem. it becomes more and more clear that what the author talks about now is himself. that this must be true, shows the frequency of the author's use of the first-person pronouns "i" (43–44, 48, 51, 54), "my" (48, 52), and "me" (53). these pronouns appear nine times in the fourth canto. certainly the author wants to dramatise the atmosphere so that the reader recalls the situation of canto one to three. he achieves this by using the same pictures of the previous cantos in this one. whereas these pictures, such as "leaf", "cloud", and "wave" have existed only together with the wind, they are now existing with the author. the author thinks about being one of them and says "if i were a . . ." (43 ff.). shelley here identifies himself with the wind, although he knows that he cannot do that, because it is impossible for someone to put all the things he has learned from life aside and enter a "world of innocence". that shelley is deeply aware of his closedness in life and his identity shows his command in line 53. there he says "oh, lift me up as a wave, a leaf, a cloud" (53). he knows that this is something impossible to achieve, but he does not stop praying for it. the only chance shelley sees to make his prayer and wish for a new identity with the wind come true is by pain or death, as death leads to rebirth. so, he wants to "fall upon the thorns of life" and "bleed" (54).
ode to the west wind