How has Shelley used imagery in Ode to West Wind?

P. B. Shelley has vividly used imagery in the poem "ode to the west wnd" to put a greater effect on the reader like the line "who chariotest to their dark wintry bed"; in this line shelley used visual imagery to emphasise the power of west wind since chariotest are something owned by rich and powerful people or the line "her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill"; in this line line P. B. shelley used a sound imagery to tell that the south west wind is blowing the trumpet of war to mart the beginning of the new era i.e. the earth full filled with blosoomand the earth will become alive. other examples of imagery are (i) cleave themselves into chasms (ii)and saw in sleep old palaces and tower.

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