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    they both talk about how people pollute the earth and hurt the environment everyday. Both texts‚ (Plastic: A Toxic Love Story) and "A Dirge" by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ are trying to raise awareness for what’s happening to our planet. In Shelley’s text‚ with the setting being outside in nature‚ it shows readers how the earth is affected. In "A Dirge" Shelley says‚ "Rough wind‚ that meanest loud" that shows the reader that the earth is sad and hurting because people are littering and polluting. Also

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    Percy Shelley’s “To a Skylark” In this poem‚ the speaker observes a bird‚ the skylark. The speaker seems a bit jealous of the freedom of the skylark‚ which travels wherever it wants to go. The skylark flies too high for the speaker to see‚ but the speaker still hears its song‚ which makes it appear to be more of a spirit. The skylark and its song becomes the speaker’s muse as he continues to observe the bird and its song. The speaker admits to not knowing whether the bird is happy or where its

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    stated‚ "Creation is a drug that I can’t do without" (Knowles 967). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and her fictitious Victor Frankenstein both apparently shared this passion for creation. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ one can draw many parallels between Shelley and Frankenstein in their attitudes towards and relationships with their creations. To begin with‚ they both find meaning in creation: for Shelley‚ wonderful stories and characters‚ and for Frankenstein‚ an actual human being. Their

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    Similarities and dissimilarities Though P. B. Shelley and John Keats were mutual friends‚ but they have possessed the diversified qualities in their creativity. These two are the great contributors of English Literature‚ though their lifecycle were very short. Their comparison are also little with each other‚ while each are very much similar in thoughts‚ imagination‚ creation and also their lifetime. 01) Attitude towards the Nature P. B. Shelley: Whereas older Romantic poets looked at nature as

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    Frankenstein is a book on science fiction by Mary Shelley. Most people know the story of Frankenstein. It is about a scientist that is able to create life but end up creating a monster instead. I have read the first sixty pages which gives you the background of Victor Frankenstein. Victor grows up in Geneva with a generic family. As time passes‚ his mom passes away as well as others. Through his young life‚ he had many deaths that occurred. Victor went on to study science. His interest were natural

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    The Prelude is an auto-biographical‚ epic poem by William Wordsworth‚ ’Mont Blanc ’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley is a much shorter poem‚ however it correlates closely to a passage from Wordsworth ’s epic where he describes a walking trip he took to Mont Blanc. There are some startling similarities between the two pieces‚ but at the same time there are sharp contrasts in the way that the scene is represented and the poets have conflicting views on what this beautiful landscape means to them. A key theme

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    Mary Shelley is a well-known British novelist who is remembered by many for her gruesome novel‚ Frankenstein. Other successful pieces of literature that she wrote during her life include The Last Man and Valperga. Shelley’s work tends to reflect her life in many instances. The tragic events that occurred in Mary Shelley’s life are the reasons why Frankenstein is written with so many horrendous occurrences. When Mary Shelley came into the world‚ she came knowing she had to live up to her family’s

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    2001). Life is full of happy moments‚ but it seems that a lingering sense of despair always follows them. It is as if pure happiness has all but vanished from Earth. However‚ Percy Shelley argues that true happiness can still be found if one looks past the harshness of the world and beyond worldly possessions. When Shelley was out for a walk one day he heard a carefree skylark whistling its melodic tune through the sky and that moment instilled such joy in him‚ he felt he had to share it with the

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    How  does  Shelley  portray  suffering  in  “Frakenstein”?     Throughout  the  novel‚  suffering  of  not  only  an  individual  but  also  humanity‚   remains  at  the  heart  of  the  plot.  Many  critics  today  believe  that  this  suffering   comes  from  the  troubled  and  tormented  life  Shelley  had.  For  example  from  1815   to  mid  1819

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    How Coleridge‚ Shelley and Wordsworth Carried Out Their Aesthetic Principles "Poetry‚" according to the definition of Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ "is the expression of the imagination (696)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge would agree with this concise definition. On the contrary‚ William Wordsworth said that‚ "no words which imagination can suggest‚ will be compared with those which are the emanations of reality and truth (336)." Wordsworth also differed from Shelley and Coleridge in his approach to writing

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