In all three poems from Percy Shelley, he brings up that you can learn from things that you typically wouldn’t think you can learn from. He points out that you can learn from ruin cities, to wind, to even birds singing. Each of his poems has a message behind them whether it is not to be so full of yourself and stay humble or even learning from a bird that is singing a song. Throughout all of Shelley’s poems, Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, and To a Skylark, Shelley wants to point out that no one should be so into themselves, the wind has a way of teaching a person a lesson and that birds show that if they can always be happy, so can a human but they have to learn from their downfalls.
The first message from Ozymandias is to never get too full of yourself and think you’re going to be known forever. In the poem, …show more content…
In this poem about wind, Shelley speaks out how it is an amazing and strange thing and how it can ruin or allow new life for different things. He thinks that the wind can do many different things, he thinks that a person can learn from the wind. “In order to blow his thoughts far and wide, the poet figuratively puts the west wind in his own mouth” (Johnson, Jeannine. "An overview of “Ode to the West Wind"), Shelley wants the wind to take his ideas and blow it far away, to different areas of the world so others can hear what he has to say. “Drive my dead thought over the universe like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!” (page 872, line 63-64), He wants others to hear about his thoughts and he thinks that if the wind can do anything, though it’s unrealistic, he wants to the wind to blow his ideas north, south, east, and west in order for others to hear what he has on his mind and has to say. Shelley wants to be able to be heard so he wants the wind to pick up what he has to say and blow it to a new place for others to be able to hear his voice and
The first message from Ozymandias is to never get too full of yourself and think you’re going to be known forever. In the poem, …show more content…
In this poem about wind, Shelley speaks out how it is an amazing and strange thing and how it can ruin or allow new life for different things. He thinks that the wind can do many different things, he thinks that a person can learn from the wind. “In order to blow his thoughts far and wide, the poet figuratively puts the west wind in his own mouth” (Johnson, Jeannine. "An overview of “Ode to the West Wind"), Shelley wants the wind to take his ideas and blow it far away, to different areas of the world so others can hear what he has to say. “Drive my dead thought over the universe like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!” (page 872, line 63-64), He wants others to hear about his thoughts and he thinks that if the wind can do anything, though it’s unrealistic, he wants to the wind to blow his ideas north, south, east, and west in order for others to hear what he has on his mind and has to say. Shelley wants to be able to be heard so he wants the wind to pick up what he has to say and blow it to a new place for others to be able to hear his voice and