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ed to poke fun at someone or something. In this poem the hyperbole is used clearly; poet’s thoughts change very fast. Sometimes it maybe in the sky, but sometimes it is in the Mediterranean. b. The Symbol Device In the romantic poets view the symbol is aesthetic correlatives of nature’s emblematic language. There are great values because they could simultaneously suggest many tings, and they are regard as being superior to the one –to –one communications of allegory. Partly, it may have been the desire to express the “inexpressible” the infinite through the available resources of language that led to symbol at one level and myth (as symbolic narrative) at another. "Ode to the West Wind" used the symbol device, the entire first poem surrounds the autumn westerly wind to write an essay from the beginning to end, regardless of is describes the scenery or expresses feelings, all has not been separated from this specific description object, has not used political terminology and revolutionizes the slogan. However read after this short poem, we deep deeply feel actually, Shelley in sings the westerly wind, is incompletely sings the westerly wind, in the poet essence is through sings the westerly wind to sing to revolutionize. In poem westerly wind, remnant leaf, seed, class cloud, rainstorm thunder and lightning, sea mighty waves, seabed colored tree and so on, all is the symbolic things, they are containing the profound implication, the moving scenery which the nature wind and cloud surges, is the world vigorous development revolutionary struggle symbolic reflection. Conclusion The romanticism has two aspects. There are positive romanticism and the negative romanticism. Literature has regional characteristic, so positive romanticism in British has their own characteristic. The romanticism asserted that reliance upon emotion and love and passions for nature provided a valid and powerful means of knowing and a reliable guidance to ethics and living. The Ode to the West Wind took the world literature, and it has manifested many characteristics of positive romanticism, but it didn’t completely manifest the positive romanticism characteristic. Subjectivism, idealism, deeply loves for nature all embodiment the characteristics of positive romanticism. Shelley is one of the repressive of positive romanticism. To some extent, Shelley is famous for “Ode to the West wind”. This poem is filled with triumphant and hopeful emotion. This thesis targets at analyzing the features of positive romanticism. There also exist some faults in this thesis. The author hopes other English learners make more research. Acknowledgements To begin with, I would like to give my best wishes to Miss Chen Jianghong, my tutor, to whom I owe a great deal of gratitude and appreciation. Miss Chen gave me many invaluable instructions and helped me much in every stage of my thesis writing. And I also greatly appreciate the help coming from my respectable teachers, Professor Tang Guoping, Li Liqin, and Cui Zhaohui. Moreover, I want to give my sincere gratitude to my dear friends and my lovely roommates, Qing Yinling, Li Ying, and Zhu Yuanhong, Xu Xiaoge who spend much time with me on my thesis. Finally, I would like to offer my sincere wishes to those who spend their precious time in reading this thesis. Bibliography [1] I.G.Robertston. The Genesis of Romantic Theory. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Education Press, 1923. [2] W.T.Jones. The Romantic Syndrome. Shanghai: Sh