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Ode to the West Wind
" Ode to the West Wind" was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley shortly before his death in
1822. Shelley spent the majority of his life in England where he was born to an upper
class family. He attended Eton for his primary education and Oxford University until he
was expelled for the publication of The Necessity of Atheism. Shortly after being
expelled, Shelley married a commoner named Harriet Westbrook , which upset his family
because of his wife’s low social standing. The marriage was short lived and Shelley
quickly fell in love with Mary Godwin. Shelley continued writing throughout his life and h
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"Ode to the West Wind" was written by Shelley on a day when the weather was
unpredictable and windy, the poem reflects the mood of the weather and expresses
Shelley’s desire for creativeness and intellect. Shelly is mainly noted
as the most passionate of the Romantic writers and for his usage of experimental styles
in poetry. The first section of the poem focuses on
the description of the colorful autumn leaves being stirred by the wind. The fifth section presents the resolution to Shelley’s
desire to be effected by the wind by Shelley letting go of his self-control and allowing
himself to be an instrument of the wind.
Shelley views his newfound relationship with the wind as being a rebirth of creativity and
intellect and ultimately gains the gifts he set out to find from being open to the west
wind.
In the fourth section of the poem Shelley shows his desire to be the autumn leaves,
tempest clouds, and turbulent waves so that he to can be effected by the wind and
nature the way the objects are.
Mary Shelley, Shelley’s wife who was also involved in literature, wrote Frankenstein. In
1822 Shelley drowned in a boating accident in the Gulf of Spieza. is
most notable works include "Ozamandias", "Laon and Cythna", and "Rosalind and Helen". The fierce...