Ode to the West Wind

Poet and spoken-word artist Jack Ramey brings to life Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," which he wrote in Florence after a walk through the woods that skirt the Arno River during a fierce wind and rain and hail storm. The physical storm and its metaphorical possibilities excited his great poetic imagination, and he went home and this poem literally poured out of him. The violence in the transition of the seasons from autumn into winter is seen as a revolutionary act that will benefit mankind in the coming peace of a symbolic spring.

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