... Similarly, in “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the author is trying to figure out a way for his words to live on. In doing this he is comparing his words to the west wind.
The title “Ode to the West Wind” is used to portray the use of the wind compared to the power of the speaker’s words. ...
In the first stanza the author addresses the “wild west wind” and refers to it as the “breath of autumn” that blows dead leaves and dormant seeds into “dark wintry bed[s]”. The wind also scatters the seeds for rebirth in the spring. Thus making the wind a “destroyer and preserver”. The speaker calls the wind the “dirge / of the dying year”, and describes how it stirs up violent storms. Through saying this, the speaker is summoning o the wind to hear him.
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