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Teachers & SchoolsMan and the Natural World
In "Ode to the West Wind," Nature is grander and more powerful than man can hope to be. The natural world is especially powerful because it contains elements like the West Wind and the Spring Wind, which can travel invisibly across the globe, affecting every cloud, leaf, and wave as they go. Man may be able to increase his status by allowing Nature to channel itself through him.
In Shelley’s "Ode to the West Wind," Nature’s power is greater than man’s because the natural world is cyclical and always capable of a rebirth with the turning of the seasons, but human beings seem to just flower and fade.