The poem starts with alliteration the "wild West Wind," this describing the wind itself, which is the subject of the poem. The speaker refers to the wind as an "unseen presence," which gives the illusion that it is from the celestial realm. He then goes on 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 he describes it as a "Destroyer and Preserver." He ends the first pa

In the third section of the poem again the speaker talks about the West Wind's power, but this time describes its power in the oceans. The speaker begins the third section with a sleep image. He says, "Thou who didst waken" seeming to say that the wind has the ability to make the sea come alive. Then in the second stanza of the third section he speaks of "Quivering within the wave's intenser day." This gives the reader two images. First, that the wind is making the water move with intensity. Secondly, quiver can be taken as an action when someone is scared. The water is "quivering" with fear of the West Wind. The sea is afraid of the winds power and intensity. This double meaning of quiver leads the reader to feel the wind's power and strength. The speaker then describes a setting of nature. He speaks of this nature as "overgrown" and "sweet." This goes along with the Romantic idea that nature is nature is a place where one can be more sensual. There is a harmony!

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e speaks of the bodies of water as being brought to a "tremble" in fear of the winds power. He ends this section of the poem with another apostrophe. He speaks to the wind saying, "O hear!" showing the speaker's desire for the wind to hear his plea.

The second section of the poem deals with the wind as being a power of the wind in the heavens. He begins the second section of the poem by saying that the wind is "'mid the steep sky's commotion." Here he is commenting on the winds power by describing the commotion the wind produces. He then uses an image of death in describing the leaves as "decaying leaves", giving us the image of a dead decaying body. Here the speaker is trying to display the strength and destructiveness of the wind. It gives the reader a sense of the strength that the wind beholds. The wind is being shown as a free pure energy in the wild. He continues on saying that the wind is controlling all that goes on in the sky. It moves the clouds in the sky just as it throws the leaves off the trees. In the third stanza of the second section of the poem, the speaker compares himself to a "fierce Maenad", a wild follower of Bacchus. Bacchus was the God of wine and lust. The author mentions the follower!

and infinity in nature. Nature as being "overgrown" is an example of its infinity. By describing nature as "sweet," the speaker shows its sensuality and how it leads us to pleasure. The speake

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Approximate Word count = 1678
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)