This resource is an introduction to the life of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Romantic Period in English Literature, this resource introduces the major poetic elements in the poem "Ode to the West Wind" and presents a summary of the main ideas in this poem and the romantic elements in it. This presentation can be used as an introduction to the study of the poetry of Shelley and the romantic poetry in general, or it can be used for the purposes of revision and preparing for assessment.