A dirge is a funeral song. Why did Shelley choose that title for this poem?
A Dirge
by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grlef too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the
night long;
Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main,--
Wall, for the world's wrong!
It’s describing nature as being upset and in mourning. Since a dirge is a funeral song, it is describing the storm, woods, and wind as being mournful and wailing as if they were singing a dirge.
