My answer is D. .... colors're adjectives
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A Possible Explanation: I believe the metaphor at the end, "being men as well as leaves, to die for the sun", is referring back to the personification/simile seen here: "midsummer's leaves race to extinction like the roar
of a Brixton riot tunneled by water hoses".
In tandem, the word lemmings has two meanings, as read in the dictionary: "a small, short-tailed, thickset rodent related to the voles, found in the Arctic tundra."
and
"a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction."
I believe "autumn's fire" and "the sun" are both symbolic of war, an idea of it, and/or passion for it. I read that this poem is criticizing the human aspect that is war and how short-lived and ignorant it all ends up coming out to be.
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In <em>Ode to the West Wind</em> by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the author is celebrating the wind for its power and ability to carry up dead leaves and making them alive, asking the wind to lift him up as if he was the leaves so that he can be one with the wind. Taking this into consideration, we can conclude that your best answer for this question is option A.
