May God my Revolutionary Ideas Spread on Earth!

Revolution is the part of human nature and the whole universe because since man and earth creation both has seen many horrible changes in man and on earth and even in the sky. When rulers become corrupt on earth and make injustice on earth revolution comes as soon as possible to turn turtle the kingdom of evil so that justice could prevail on earth.

But the process of revolution starts in human minds when men create internal changes in self and in their thinking a definite revolution comes on earth that devours all injustice and cruel rulers like the Pharaohs of Egypt, time destroyed them all just their mummies are present in the pyramids and nothing else. But those who present revolutionary ides are poets and philosophers on earth and no other man.

Shelley was a revolutionary poet and wanted to bring a positive revolution all over the world through his forceful thoughts, feelings and emotions and for this purpose he wrote a poem named, Ode to the West Wind, requesting it to take his revolutionary ideas with it because you go everywhere freely. The poet requests to the west wind to spread his revolutionary ideas on earth as you spread dead and dry leaves all over the world with its powerful spreading power equally all over the world.

It is a very sad poem ever written on the Wild West wind and its power that nature has allotted the west wind to destroy all negative forces and spread positive forces on all earth and among human beings so that a new civilization may start to refine man’ inborn traits on earth.

1. B. Shelley’s poem Ode to the West Wind is one of the most revolutionary poems in the history of English poetry. Because it thoroughly deals with Shelley’s revolutionary ideas are expressed through west wind that goes everywhere freely. Actually ode is a long lyric poem serious in subject, devoted in style and elaborate in its stanza structure, in which the poet is stimulated by an aspect of the outer scene and turns on the attempt to solve either a private problem or a generally human problem.

In this poem he tries to solve his personal problem of spreading his revolutionary ideas all over the world. For this purpose, he chooses the west wind that is a bold child of autumn season and drives leaves as a magician makes dance the phantoms. Just like the west wind buries black and yellow leaves into earth like an expert farmer.

Approaching the spring season the dead leaves change into cute flowers full of pretty smell. Therefore the poet says:

“Wild spirit, which are among every where

Destroyer and preserver, hear, oh, Hear,”

On the other hand, the west wind upsets clouds and compels them to give rain and storm so that the whole earth may take a new shape. Sometimes the west wind throws all things into disorder and we feel its presence through dancing things in the west wind.

Here the poet wants to be a dead leaf, a cloud and a wave to enjoy fully the company of the west wind. Because the west wind is at large in going and coming everywhere, here the poet reminds of his childhood when he used to roam like the west wind in the country. As the Text shows:

“Thou, thou, O uncontrollable, if even

I were as in my boyhood, and could be,”

But now the mundane woe and grief have made the poet weak mentally and physically now he has no power to face the world which is full of fever and fret. Finding no way to flee from the cruelties of the world he wishes to be a leaf, a cloud and a wave. The poet’s revolutionary voice reverberates in these lines:

“Oh! Lift me as a wave, leaf, a cloud

I fall upon the thorn of life I bleed

Further he wants to be a permanent companion of the wild-west wind to spread his revolutionary thoughts all over the world because the west wind goes everywhere freely.

To sum up, the poem is a representative poem of Shelley carrying the message of revolution on the whole universe so that the mega world could take a new shape for the coming generation. It is full of emotions and emotional revolutionary ideas. Its style, diction and imagery all are the best and understandable for the readers.