Ode To The West Wind Essay

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"Destroyer and Preserver." He ends the first part in the fifth stanza with an apostrophe. The speaker speaks to the West Wind, and asks this higher force to listen to his plea.
The second section of the poem deals with the wind as being a power of the wind in the heavens. He begins the second section of the poem by saying that the wind is "'mid the steep sky's commotion." Here he is commenting on the winds power by describing the commotion the wind produces. He then uses an image of death in describing the leaves as "decaying leaves", giving us the image of a dead decaying body. Here the speaker is trying to display the strength and destructiveness of the wind. It gives the reader a sense of the strength that the wind beholds. The wind is being shown as a free pure energy in the wild. He continues on saying that the wind is controlling all that goes on in the sky. It moves the clouds in the sky just as it throws the leaves off the trees. In the third stanza of the second ...

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wind is making the water move with intensity. Secondly, quiver can be taken as an action when someone is scared. The water is "quivering" with fear of the West Wind. The sea is afraid of the winds power and intensity. This double meaning of quiver leads the reader to feel the wind's power and strength. The speaker then describes a setting of nature. He speaks of this nature as "overgrown" and "sweet." This goes along with the Romantic idea that nature is nature is a place where one can be more sensual. There is a harmony and infinity in nature. Nature as being "overgrown" is an example of its infinity. By describing nature as "sweet," the speaker shows its sensuality and how it ...

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