Status Updates From Ode to the West Wind

"I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"

real

"If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share"

"Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean"

why is he eating down though like

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share



The impulse of thy strength, only less free

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share



The impulse of thy strength, only less free

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened Earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Reading in The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2