Shelley wrote in A Defence of Poetry that poets are "the heirophants [priests] of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of t
he gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present . . . . Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." He expresses the same bold claim in the poem "Ode to the West Wind" when he says, _____. If even / I were as in my boyhood, and could be / The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven . . .
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed / One too like thee: tameless, and swift . . .
Be thou, Spirit fierce, / My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth / The trumpet of a prophecy!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth / The trumpet of a prophecy!
In the poem "Ode to the West Wind," the author Percy Bysshe Shelley makes reference to the worthy work of poets. Therein, Shelley uses a metaphor to compare his mouth to a musical instrument: a trumpet. As a result, through his lips the wind will blow or play its own revelation.
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