The poem "Ode to the West Wind," written by Percy Bysshe Shelley is filled with sleep images, sickness images and death images. The speaker in the poem talks of the power of nature, a very romantic idea. It includes the romantic notion that nature is a place of harmony and a place of sensual pleasures. It is also the romantic belief that excessive reason is bad and one should look toward nature for the truth. …showed first 75 words of 1686 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1686 total…greatness. He then ends with a question, "If Winter comes can Spring be far behind?" This question seems to be telling us that people do not know the truth and are dead and asleep to the truth, like the leaves of winter, but the truth cannot be far off. The truth that the West Wind brings will regenerate them and bring them hope just like the spring brings new life and new hope. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**