When you read Ode to the West Wind, consider why people find such power (and fear) thrilling. What moves Percy Shelley so? Why would he shout to the wind, “Be thou me…!”
Nature has a great power on people’s life, it makes people feel in different way, but the most common feeling is peace. People feel the power of nature, it makes that people feel emotive about it because nature represents the creation that God made and it also expresses that we do not know what will happen in the world, it gives us a great view of what the world is and the immensity it has.
Shelly expresses the feelings over nature, over the wind and the power it has. Shelley asks the wind to be his spirit, which will play him like a musical instrument, the way the wind strums the leaves of the trees. He says that the older generation of Romantic poets viewed nature as a source of truth and authentic experience
Free writing:
Have you ever experienced the sublime aspect of nature? When?
Nature forms an important part of my life, every time I have to visit an ecologic park I try to enjoy it in the best way. I do think that nature is a great medicine for the heart, mind, body and soul, so I always experience the sublime aspect of nature. Nature is one of my passions; I love to see some virgin forests because those landscapes represent peace for me.
Last Monday, I went with my boyfriend and his family to an ecologic park, it was incredible; well I think that I was the only one that enjoyed it. I’m a person that loves technology and those things, but I like to have some moments to be surrounded by nature and have some time to enjoy it. In nature, I have the time to think and leave my mind to go into the beauty and power that nature has.
Is incredible what nature makes on me. Sometimes when I feel frustrated the best thing that I can do is go out of my house and enjoy the beauty of the sun, trees, grass and sound of birds. Is really amazing when I can hear a waterfall too, it makes me relax and feel the power of nature over my mind.
