the fourth part

• The poet says that he would like to returne to hiswood;
• He is forced to do it because he his fallen on the Thorns Of Life;
• The pains of life are so havy that even the indomitable wind could be bent and chained by this problems

BIOGRAFY

• Eton College - Oxford University ;
• Married with Harriet Westbrooke;
• Maty Wollostonercraft Godwind and three children died;
• Voluntary Exile in Italy;
• In 1822, Shelleys intense life was cut short by an accident: while sailing near Livorno, he drowned during a storm (Shelleys grave is in the Protestant cemetery in Rome).

the nature

• Is a beautiful veil whose hides the eternal truth of the Divine Spirit;
• Rapresents the better refuge from the injustice of the real world;
• Rapresents the interlocutor of his melancholy dreams and his hopes for a better future.

the second part

• the poet uses a metaphor ;
• the poet sees a funeral monument , sepulchre.

the structure

• Written to celebrate the majesty and the power of the west wind;
• Can be divided in fifth part.

the tirdh part

• the ocean subdued to wind it will become dyed of grey, opening a path and so revealing the deep abysses.

the task

• The task of the poet is to help mankind to reach an ideal world;

the first part

• describing it as a wild being because it blows where it wants uncontrolled and impetuous;
• wind presence abstract;

the immagination

• Particoular faculty that lets the poet to save the world of the evil.

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works

• 1819 "Ode to the west wind "and "The ceci " ;
• 1820 "To a Skylark "and "Prometheus Unbound ";
• 1821 "Adonais "and a "Defence of Poetry " ;

The poet

• Believed in the principles of freedom and love;

Percy bysshe shelley

the fifth part

• The poet says that he would like to be as a lyre to be able to play the pains and the melancholy of a spoilt hood that the poet compares to his life;

Ode to the west wind

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The poetry