Why is Shelley's ode to the west wind a patriotic poem?

Ode to the west wind, one of Shelley's three ode poems, was written in 18 19. At that time, the workers' movements and revolutionary movements in European countries were surging. In order to fight for their right to exist, the British working class is waging a heroic struggle against the bourgeoisie, with machine destruction and strikes one after another. 18 19 In August, 80,000 workers in Manchester held a massive demonstration, and the reactionary authorities sent troops to brutally suppress it, creating the famous Petrou Massacre in history. Shelley, full of grief and indignation, wrote a long poem "Masked Parade Tyranny" and made a solemn protest against the bloody atrocities of the bourgeois government. Since the collapse of Napoleon's monarchy and the restoration of Bourbon Dynasty in France, class contradictions have been extremely acute, and the broad masses of the people are brewing a revolutionary struggle against the feudal restoration forces. The disintegration of Napoleon's empire also greatly promoted.

Shelley manuscript

Spanish people's revolutionary movement against alien oppression and feudal autocracy, 18 19 65438+ October, finally the gunfire of armed uprising rang out. On the eve of the armed uprising, Heine presented an ode to the Spanish people and sounded the horn for the Spanish revolution. In Italy and Greece, the national liberation movement is in the ascendant. Shortly after the publication of Shelley's ode to the west wind, vigorous armed uprisings broke out in these two countries. Facing the revolutionary situation in Europe, Shelley was deeply encouraged and excited, and the poet's chest was boiling with fiery revolutionary passion. At this time, triggered by a stormy natural scene, this uncontrollable revolutionary passion immediately rushed out of the chest and poured into a passionate and generous singing. At this time, the poet was living in Italy and was at the peak of his creation. This poem can be said to be a confession of the poet's "proud, agile and unruly soul" and a portrayal of the spirit of the times. With his poetic talent and the help of natural elves, the poet makes his life correspond to the surging west wind, and sings the melody of life and the crazy dance of soul with magnificent chapters.

The poet wrote the image of the west wind with beautiful and powerful imagination. That magnificent poem strongly shocked people's passion and showed people the image that the west wind was fierce and eager to sweep away the old world and create a new world. The strange and vivid metaphors in the poem, the decay of dead leaves, the crazy girl's hair, the black rain and the dark world all deeply shocked people's hearts.

The last two paragraphs of the poem are the correspondence between the poet and the west wind. "I fell on the thorns of life, and I was bleeding!" This heartbreaking poem tells the trauma of the poet's unruly mind. Nevertheless, the poet is still willing to be blown by the west wind and feel the spirit and breath of the west wind at the moment when his dying life is torn apart; The poet is willing to devote himself to the coming spring. At the end of the poem, the poet shouted in a prophetic tone:

"Winter has come, west wind, can spring be far behind?"

Here, the west wind has become a symbol, which is an ubiquitous cosmic spirit, a west wind spirit that breaks the old world and pursues a new world. The poet used the west wind as a metaphor to express his belief in life and his determination to declare war on the old world.