Ode To The West Wind Poem Analysis

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind (1819) is a lyrical poem that chants the song of a poet who meticulously observes how the power of the wind that creates a powerful change within the mind of the poet. “The poem was written in Shelley is one of many romantic poets who have an adoration of nature and uses it is a recurring theme in this poem, as the poet addresses the forces of nature in a personalized way. The poem praises the West Wind as it forms and observation of the wind in the mind of the poet. The imagination of the poet plays a vital role in constructing poetry which signifies the liberation that the Romantic Movement speaks about. Therefore this essay aims to explore what the poem signifies about the nature of the poet in by closely looking at the poets role as an instrument, the effect that the poet’s words has in to demonstrate the influence on humanity and how the poet presents the power of his words and actions by analyzing the last stanza in the poem to establish what this poem brings forth about the poet character and role in the poem.

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Here, the poet makes a final statement in reference to the prophecy of the seasons. As the seasons follow a natural and inevitable order, it is clear that the poet proposes a rhetorical question. The reader knows that spring will follow after the month of winter, but no human can quicken the time that it will take the process to evolve. It is a process which takes time like everything else in lifeAccording to Hall, “Therefore, the poem ends not with a driving assertiveness of the wind, but with the skeptical freedom of a question that suggests the boundaries of poems and poetic worlds” (63). As much as the poet has inflicted a certain sense of dominance over the wind, the mind of the poet cannot make the process go quicker. It is a process which cannot be