We are studying within this unit the British Romantic genre of poetry, today discussing Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" and Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much with Us." Regarding Shelley's poem, I defined the term "ode" and identified the speaker as the poet himself .We then explored in detail the metaphoric meaning of the wind. In studying the poem, I emphasized the use of enjambment and the need to read the lines of this poem as running together until there is punctuation even running lines from one stanza to the next. We further noted the emotive tone and elevated language characteristic of an ode. Regarding Wordsworth, Nina identified the reverence for Nature in the poem as indicative of the Romantic genre, and we discussed why the poet expresses a strong displeasure at a materialistic. society and daringly expresses his preference of Paganism over Christianity observing that at least the Pagans saw the gods in Nature rather than seeing Nature as a resource .