Ode To The West Wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley

A formerly rebellious, now disillusioned poet seeks inspiration and draws strength from a mighty uncontrollable force of Nature.

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[Dimitry Raskolnikov]

Francis Bacon didn't write Shakespeare's sonnets.

[TheJb85350]

first i didnt understand the poem because of the very unfamilliar words but then again because this is my report about poem i do my research bout it and slowly i understand and its so great!

[El ze bob]

I think it's very ignorant to believe this is about the wind. Since when has a poem been about it's title, it's a metaphore, in this case it's a symbol, a symbol of 'revolution' wind of change. The west wind is a rosicrucian symbol for revolution, in many arts, Shakesphere (francis bacon) sonnets, Boticellie's Primavera & The Birth of Venus (zephyus) This poem is about pagan repression by christians & he's saying in symbols 'hear me' but no one is, they're just hearing the wind. It's rosicrucian

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[devilnitish]

no...no.. Never... This Poem Has Made Me Cray.... I've Got This Poem in Exams... I've Learn This Whole Poem.... :-(

[Sam Su]

nice rendition...very interesting

[birdonet]

Todo lo humano es un suceder de hechos sobrevenidos al hombre. Este, como criatura inexperta en el arte de vivir, se entretiene en tareas que le son propias: ora escribe poemas, para que otro los recite con idéntico estupor, ora reza una oración a Dios que está el Cielo, o, busca con ansia una mirada, para ver reflejada en ella la misma soledad que hay en su alma.

[chatmeister2008]

he's talking about how he wants to be part of nature and without human conscience. He wants to be free like the wind, but he awknowledges that he can not possibly achieve this, and shows this awknowledgement by using a terza rima structure which is very strict and symbolizes the way his human rules tie him down. He also talks about natural things all the way through but throws in the odd juxtaposition with man-made things to show how he is still affected by human things.