n regards to the colors of the leaves. Shelley uses a metaphor of likening the leaves to "Pestilence stricken multitudes," that is, to sick and feeble humans. This metaphor is advanced by describing the colors of the leaves as "Yellow, black, pale, and red," which can be said to be describing all the races and creeds of humanity. The leaves, or the sickened humanity, is then personified as people within their graves: "Each as a corpse with their own grave," until the wind again, a representation of poetic inspiration, "shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odors plain and hill;" thereby allowing creative expression to be full
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