In Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," nature is employed to reinforce ideas from the Romantic movement. In this poem, Shelley explains concepts such as beauty and aesthetics, which are linked to Romanticism through the natural world. In the fifth part of the poem, Shelley uses the wind as metaphor for his own art as he expresses the "dead thoughts" like "withered leaves" over the universe "to quicken a new birth," spring. In this context, spring represents freedom and imagination, which Shelley intends convey to the human mind. By creating a vision of himself in his poetry, while using nature to portray imagination and liberation, Shelley is able to affirm his standpoint as a Romantic poet.
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