Percy Shelly Master of Emotion
Percy Shelly Master of Beauty
by
Mark Hightree
Tim Keller
English
4 March 2013
Hightree 1
Percy Shelly Master of Emotion Percy Shelly 's work seems to flow with gracefulness and feeling. Each of his works shows a different feeling and expresses what he sees around him. Shelly 's poems are thick with life, love, beauty, expression, and imagination. This makes his works so enjoyable and easy to feel and read. He creates the true feeling of Romanticism. Percy Shelly is known for a number of magnificent works including Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, and Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. These poems create a vivid feeling of the expression of beauty and imagination. A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty really show his imagination mixed with love. To a Skylarks beauty flows off the page and Ode to the West Wind creates the feeling of life. Although Ozymandias strays away from his usual emotions it is a great work of art and is very imaginative. To a Skylark Shelly describes the beauty of a skylark. The bird ascends higher and higher into the sky. With each line he describes the environment around the bird as it sings. Shelly uses different objects like the stars in heaven when he says:
"The pale purple even Melts around thy flight;
Like a star of Heaven In the broad daylight
Though art unseen but yet I hear thy shrill delight," (Shelly)
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Going from the stars in heaven Shelly moves to the description of a cloud of fire as the bird soars higher into the sky. Higher still and higher | From the earth thou springest, | Like a cloud of fire; | The blue deep thou wingest, | And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. |
(Shelly)
When he uses terms like golden lightning in these lines: In the golden lightning | Of the sunken sun, | O 'er which clouds are bright 'ning, | Thou dost float and run, | Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. |
by
Mark Hightree
Tim Keller
English
4 March 2013
Hightree 1
Percy Shelly Master of Emotion Percy Shelly 's work seems to flow with gracefulness and feeling. Each of his works shows a different feeling and expresses what he sees around him. Shelly 's poems are thick with life, love, beauty, expression, and imagination. This makes his works so enjoyable and easy to feel and read. He creates the true feeling of Romanticism. Percy Shelly is known for a number of magnificent works including Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, and Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. These poems create a vivid feeling of the expression of beauty and imagination. A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty really show his imagination mixed with love. To a Skylarks beauty flows off the page and Ode to the West Wind creates the feeling of life. Although Ozymandias strays away from his usual emotions it is a great work of art and is very imaginative. To a Skylark Shelly describes the beauty of a skylark. The bird ascends higher and higher into the sky. With each line he describes the environment around the bird as it sings. Shelly uses different objects like the stars in heaven when he says:
"The pale purple even Melts around thy flight;
Like a star of Heaven In the broad daylight
Though art unseen but yet I hear thy shrill delight," (Shelly)
Hightree 2
Going from the stars in heaven Shelly moves to the description of a cloud of fire as the bird soars higher into the sky. Higher still and higher | From the earth thou springest, | Like a cloud of fire; | The blue deep thou wingest, | And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. |
(Shelly)
When he uses terms like golden lightning in these lines: In the golden lightning | Of the sunken sun, | O 'er which clouds are bright 'ning, | Thou dost float and run, | Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. |
Cited: FamousPoetsandPoems.com. FamousPoetsandPoems.com, 2006. Web. 1 March 2013 Sparknotes.com