"Make me thy lyre," and to "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe /
The poet noted that it "was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence," and the poet's proximity to Dante's home may explain this poem's complex terza rima form. The speaker bewails his human nature, crying "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed," and enjoins the title entity "Make me thy lyre," and to "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe / Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!" For ten points, the line "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" ends this Percy Shelley ode to a force of nature.
The poet noted that it "was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence," and the poet's proximity to Dante's home may explain this poem's complex terza rima form.
“{Ode to the West Wind}”