Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ode to the West Wind is an ode written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 near Florence, Italy; it was published in 1820. Some have interpreted the poem as the speaker lamenting his inability to directly help those in England owing to his being in Italy; at the same time, the poem expresses the hope that its words will inspire and influence those who read or hear it.