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1. Introduction
   “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”(龙毛忠,2004:57) are John Keat’s famous words. Then what gives us the sense of beauty in a lyric poem about nature? Of course it is the main figure of the poem. In fact a poet is some thing like a sculptor that uses the knife to carve out a beautiful statue; a poet is some thing like a painter painting a beautiful picture in front of us, which we appreciate very much; a poet is some thing like a musician that writes a pleasant song for our ears. Shelly is such kind of person, in his famous work Ode to the West Wind he creates a life-like west wind which destroys the old things and preserves new ones. When we read the poem we can easily visualize the sound of it. Instead of describing the west wind simply, the author gives the west wind the spirit of a revolutionist. That is why this poem is still popular after hundreds of years.
   Shelly was born of noble blood and received good education at school. He was not only interested in philosophy, literature, but also interested in natural science. He had a radical mind that was the reason why he was expelled from Oxford University after his book The Necessity of Atheism, 1811 published. In 1812 he wrote a book named Address to the Irish people, 1812 and he took money from his own pocket to print it and handed them out in Dublin Street. He was a man who loved other people very much. His friend Byron called Shelly “the best and lest selfish I ever know.” His wife Mary Shelly wrote: “Shelly loved the people; and respected them as often more virtuous, as always more suffering, and therefore more deserving of sympathy, than the great. He believed that 本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供a clash between the two classes of society was inevitable, and he eagerly ranged himself on the people’s side.” (刘炳善,1993:290)He hated the oppressors and exploiters of people very much, but unfortunately such kind of good man was drowned in July 8,1822 when he was sailing in a small boat along in Italy. That year he was only 30.
   His famous poem Ode to the West Wind was finished during that time in Italy in 1819, influenced by three reasons as follow:
1.) He didn’t recover from his pain that he lost his daughter in 1819.
2.) Manchester Massacre in July 16,1819 Britain radicals and workers about 80,000 people were gathered on Manchester’s St. Peter Square, asking the government for reforming the congress and abolish the cereal rule that makes the price of grain so high. Instead of cancel the rule, Britain government send the cavalryman to suppress this movement, cause 11 people death, 40,000 people wound. When the news spread into Italy Shelly got angry about the government.
3.) The day in autumn 1819, Shelly was sitting in a wood on the edge of Arno and near Florence; the mild temperature became to changed and pour down autumnal rains. Then at the time of sunset the rain changes into violent tempest of hail and rain with thunder and lighting this brought Shelly with the idea of expressing his anger and pain in his poem.

2. Skills in writing the poem
2.1. Figures of speech
a. Alliteration

As a good example of Shelly’s poetic mind at work, Ode to the West Wind uses alliteration to add sound effects in the poem. From beginning to the end there are 25 lines containing alliteration, which take up a little more than 1/3 of the whole poem. Those alliterations in the poem play an important本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。