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[Title] Romanticism and Shelley's Ode to the West Wind - Romanticism and Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" M.H. Abrams wrote, "The Romantic period was eminently an age obsessed with fact of violent change" ("Revolution" 659). And Percy Shelley is often thought of as the quintessential Romantic poet (Appelbaum x). The "Ode to the West Wind" expresses perfectly the aims and views of the Romantic period. Shelley's poem expresses the yearning for Genius. In the Romantic era, it was common to associate genius with an attendant spirit or force of nature from which the genius came; the Romantics perceived the artist as a vessel through which the genius flows.... [tags: Ode West Wind] :: 4 Works Cited [Length] 978 words (2.8 pages) [3] [preview] [Color Rating] 
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