" The title entity is described as both "destroyer and preserver," and the narrator asks it to sweep him out of his torpor as "a wave, a leaf, a cloud" before a final plea of "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
In one section of this work, the speaker uses the title entity as a metaphor for his own art, describing it as driving the author's "dead thoughts over the universe". At the end of the second section, "black rain, and fire, and hail" is seen bursting from the atmosphere while a little bit later, the blue Mediterranean is awakened from his dreams by the titular entity, which is also "quivering within the wave's intenser day." The title entity is described as both "destroyer and preserver," and the narrator asks it to sweep him out of his torpor as "a wave, a leaf, a cloud" before a final plea of "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" For 10 points, identify this poem about the "breath of Autumn's being," a work of Percy Shelley.
In one section of this work, the speaker uses the title entity as a metaphor for his own art, describing it as driving the author's "dead thoughts over the universe".
“Ode to the {West Wind}”