Please can I have an analysis of "Ode to the West Wind"?

Essentially, this famous ode is an extended apostrophe to
the powerful west wind, that Shelley refers to as "thou breath of Autumn's being." After
addressing the wind and describing its effects, the speaker of the poem declares that
the wind is both "Destroyer and preserver," and finally ends by imploring the wind to
share its power with him so that his words may be spread throughout mankind and might
spark new life in the world.

It is important to note that
at the end of the very first stanza, the speaker makes the wind seem like a life force
or divinity:

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Wild Spirit, which art moving
everywhere;

Destroyer and preserver; hear, O,
hear!

Consider to the way
that the wind is presented in the first stanza and how the poem equally focuses on the
wind's act of "destruction" and the role it plays in creating new life. This reinforces
the personification of the wind as a kind of god that brings resurrection and
annihilation in its wake.

It is these dual aspects of the
West Wind that the speaker of the poem seizes upon as he closes his verse by asking to
be the instrument of this powerful entity when he says "Make me thy lure, even as the
forest is." His attempt to powerfully identify himself with the West Wind and to share
these same characteristics are so that his verse can be used to impel a rebirth amongst
humanity:

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Drive my dead thoughts over the
universe

Like withered leaves to quicken a new
birth!

And, by the incantation of this
verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished
hearth

Ashes and sparks, my words among
mankind!

Be through my lips to unawakened
earth

The trumpet of
prophecy!

Note the paradox
implicit when the speaker describes words as "ashes and sparks." Yet a smouldering
hearth contains both dead ashes, the inert words of a poet, as well as the fiery sparks
that represent the life in the poet's words and their ability to inspire and "ignite"
others.

Thus the poem, whilst it is clearly a pageant to
the power of nature as represented in the West Wind, can also be said to be about the
nature of being a poet and also the desire to communicate Shelley's own experience of
being a poet through his verse being read through generations, "blown" metaphorically by
the West Wind.