In a press statement, Wessels explains that Ode To The West Wind pulls its title and themes from a Percy Shelley poem, while the video laments how humanity has treated the natural world.

I wanted to start from a poem that was possibly related to a pandemic. I read "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, all his biographies and his connections with India, with Mahatma ...

He comes to most of us in neatly packaged school anthologies which safely repeat the classics (Ozymandias, To a Skylark, and Ode to the West Wind), but ... Good poetry has no age, and no colour." ...