Part one of term paper
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 e ...

Part two of term paper
... to describe the power of the wind through a simile, where he says the leaves "Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing." Again the speaker puts the wind into the non-physical world by describing the wind using words such as "breath", "unseen presence", and "enchanter". At the end of the first stanza, the speaker again talks about the wind, as a celestial being when he describes the wind as a "Wild Spirit" and says this spirit is everywhere. He then comments on the power of the wind when ...