... . However, they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both poets have breathed life into inanimate objects, however death and aging are the prominent themes within both of these works. In "Ode to the West Wind", Shelley personifies many of nature's elements by attaching descriptions of remains of death that are typically human. He begins ... inanimate objects where the speaker avers that he or she's thoughts are dead in the seventh line. In this line, the speaker has surrendered the idea of he or she's metamorphosis into a tree, but still compares th...

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