What kind of life does the poet say he is leading at the time the west wind is blowing in "Ode to the West Wind"?

The speaker directly addresses the west wind, which he calls "wild," calling it both a "Destroyer and preserver" and asking it to "hear" him. In the fifth and final section, we get the biggest clues as to how the speaker himself is feeling. He asks the wind to

Drive [his] dead thoughts over the universeLike wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth!

It seems, then, that the speaker feels "dead" in some way—perhaps he lacks creativity or inspiration—and he hopes that the wind will scatter his old, dead thoughts and disperse them so that he can begin anew, like the earth after the winter, when spring comes. He asks the wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Thus, the speaker seems to be living a rather unfulfilled life; he feels as though he is dead in some way, like plants in the winter. He does not grow or create or change, as living things do. He wishes for the wind to carry away the detritus so that new life—new creations, perhaps—can flourish.