Keats And Shelly

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ing. Little by little

his mind becomes full of "dead thoughts" which overwhelm him after he penetrates the

autumnal mood of nature, thus his mind generates the mood of the season and he becomes a

part of it. However, observing the autumnal devastation Shelley knows that this season is not

to rule over the earth forever, he expects the time when "Spring shall blow" over England and

new leaves will replace the falling ones, and when the "winged seeds" will awake from their

deep sleep to produce new life. Aware of the fact that year after year "the old life goes and a

new life returns with the seasonal cycle" (Tet, p.214), the poet is disturbed by a feeling of

heavy pressure of time on the world. Being a part of natural mood, as well as natural mood

being a part of him, Shelley decidedly composes the lines, where he identifies the mature

season of the year with his own aging: "A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One

too like thee". According to Ronald Tetreault's critical study The Poetry of Life: Shelley and

Literary Form "the poet's response to the wind initially repeats the response of nature" (Tet,

p.214). So, as the autumnal forest gets old and leafless, thus the poet feels how he grows older

and so he writes: "as the forest is my leaves are falling like its own". Shelley believes that the

"wild west wind breath of Autumn's being" is responsible for the autumnal desolation which

influences both nature and the poet himself. In the Ode, the poet describes it as a power "from

whose unseen ...