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The poem "Ode to the West Wind," written by Percy Bysshe Shelley is filled with sleep images, sickness images and death images. The speaker in the poem talks of the power of nature, a very romantic idea. It includes the romantic notion that nature is a place of harmony and a place of sensual pleasures. It is also the romantic belief that excessive reason is bad and one should look toward nature for the truth. The poem starts with alliteration the "wild West Wind," this describing the wind itself, which is the subject of the poem. The speaker refers to the wind as an "unseen presence," which gives the illusion that it is from the celestial realm. He then goes on to describe the power of the wind through a simile, where he says the leaves "Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing." Again the speaker puts the wind into the non-physical world by describing the wind using words such as "breath", "unseen presence", and "enchanter". At the end of the first stanza, the speaker again talks about the wind, as a celestial being when he describes the wind as a "Wild Spirit" and says this spirit is everywhere. He then comments on the power of the wind when he describes it as a "Destroyer and Preserver." He ends the first pa
Then in the second stanza he begs the wind to listen to him. In the beginning of the fifth section the speaker begins his plea to the wind by saying he wants to join the wind. " Here he is saying that he wants to get rid of his thoughts, he would like his thoughts to die. " This goes along with the Romantic idea that nature is nature is a place where one can be more sensual. He wants to become an instrument of the wind. The speaker then describes the nature under water in the fourth stanza of the third section. Then in the second stanza of the third section he speaks of "Quivering within the wave's intenser day. In the second stanza of the fifth section the speaker emphasizes the strength of the wind. Bacchus was the God of wine and lust. He wants the wind to inspire him and give him the strength and intensity he needs to express himself. He then uses an image of death in describing the leaves as "decaying leaves", giving us the image of a dead decaying body. He wants to be spontaneous like the West Wind and act on instinct. Here he describes the rain as being "Black rain", with fire falling from the sky. " He wants to spread his ideas to all of "mankind" in order to spark them to be as the West Wind. He then compares the wind's uncontrolableness to his own uncontrolableness as a young boy.
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