Ode to the West Wind Essay 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. 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