Comparison of Keats, Byron, and Shelley
...and said that the ocean would sink them. He always loved and admired the ocean by its power that it had towards anything; he said it was like a whole other world underneath. “Ode to the West Wind”, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, was a poem dedicated to the power of the wind on Earth. He recognizes the wind as a powerful force of nature that he explains in his reality; he wished that the wind could lift him up like “a wave, leaf, and a cloud”. He wishes he could be like the west wind, in its free spirit to do anything it wants, like how he expresses himself in is poem. In this poem, like Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale”, Shelley personifies beauty. A good example of personifying beauty is how Shelley uses the lyre as a symbol of art and beauty. You could see that Shelley begins writing about how the winter is coming and how it personifies death, and how he says that the “leaves dead”, “yellow and black, and pale, and hectic red”; how the west wind bring cold and death. Later on, Shelley describes how the images change from death to a more peaceful attitude. In the later stanzas, Shelley identifies himself with the west wind and how it makes him do well. He says that even if the wind could be seen as evil, it could also bring out the good in him, too. “Ode to a Nightingale”, by John Keats, is a poem attributing the one thing he strives to be like, his nightingale. The tone of this specific work by Keats is very melancholy, because the narrator knows that he will die soon; so he thinks that the only way of relieving this pain would be by getting drunk and forgetting his physical and emotional wounds. Keats, as I stated before, also personifies beauty, but uses this technique as a way to maybe make a reference to the woman he has loved and treasure forever, Fanny. He realizes that death i...