Final answer:
In ‘Ode to the West Wind’, Shelley asks the West Wind to use him as an instrument to broadcast his thoughts and inspire change in the world.
Step-by-step explanation:
In Part V of ‘Ode to the West Wind’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet implores the West Wind to make him its lyre, to be the mouth through which the wind's inspirations could be interpreted and relayed. He wants the wind to drive his dead thoughts over the universe, like withered leaves, to quicken a new birth. And by that, he hopes that his ideas could spark a new thought or cause change in the world. Shelley sees the West Wind as a powerful force of change and desires to harness that force to disseminate his revolutionary thoughts.