Ode to the West Wind Language and Communication Quotes

In a comparison rather different from the running metaphor of "dead leaves," the speaker compares his ideas to "ashes and sparks," suggesting that some of them are dead and others are capable of kindling new fires.

The combination of the speaker’s mouth and the West Wind’s power will result in a "trumpet" that wakes the Earth – just as in Canto II, the metaphor here is the Last Judgment.