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    one that manifests the desire to be motivated by the “unembodied” joy of that uncomplicated purity of being‚ and is unmixed of melancholy or of the bittersweet‚ as human joy so often is. Neurotic‚ yet quintessential‚ poet of the late Romantic era‚ Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ explores the deeply ingrained yet paradoxical state of permanence and impermanent thought within and around humans as idealised in his poems “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” and “To a Skylark”. Both poems illustrate revelations of humanities

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    special night. Last year‚ we decided to watch Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief‚ and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. My siblings and I had read and loved the books‚ written by Rick Riordan‚ so we thought‚ “How bad could it be? It would be amazing to see these incredible stories onscreen!” We were wrong. Every member of my family who had read the books agreed that this movie destroyed the intent of the original Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. We had rented

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    hazards of life.” (Hamilton). Meaning that you aren’t living unless you are truly face to face with death and risk. You are on edge and not cooped up afraid of going for something. And that is exactly what Perseus and Percy Jackson‚ two heroic figures‚ live up to. To that extent‚ “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan transforms the ancient legend of “Perseus” in a compelling‚ entertaining‚ and imaginative way through it’s craftsmanship of modernization‚ sequence of events‚ characters

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    book project was Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. The main character in this book was Percy Jackson his father is Poseidon the god of the sea and his mother is a normal human. In the book he discovers more of his abilities he inherited from his father and he learns to like his half-brother Tyson. Tyson is also a son of Poseidon‚ but instead of a human he is a Cyclops. He is younger than Percy and embarrasses Percy all the time. Although he is not smart he is incredibly strong like all other Cyclops

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    In “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ an ancient statue is told to be proclaiming the creator’s greatness in his empire‚ while standing alone in the desert. Although Ozymandias’s empire may have been great‚ the ceaseless march of time grinds all civilizations to oblivion‚ leaving only ironic reminders of their former glory. Created from the author’s knowledge of fallen civilization in a contest with the his friend‚ the poem Ozymandias has become a cultural icon for the decay of what once was great

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    joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties‚” (Keller‚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

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    such as John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley were born. These two famous authors influenced many other authors to come. John Keats (1795 – 1821) and Percy Shelley (1792-1822) were both good friends during their time‚ which could be why they wrote their poems on similar topics for example both “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley and “To Autumn” by Keats were both written on nature and how they perceived it. The first time reading “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley‚ it seems as

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    To think of something romantically is to think of it naively‚ in a positive light‚ away from the view of the majority. Percy Bysshe Shelley has many romantic themes in his plays. Educated at Eton College‚ he went on to the University of Oxford only to be expelled after one year after publishing an inappropriate collection of poems. He then worked on writing full-time‚ and moved to Italy shortly before his death in a boating accident off the shore of Leghorn. He wrote many pieces‚ and his writing

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    CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the research on the topic of this dissertation was done by Mr. Ankit Ghildiyal under my supervision and to the best of my knowledge. The work is the result of his original investigation and study. (Dr. Mrs. VANDANA CHAUHAN)

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    and works of Rick Riordan 2. Question: because I want to find out how he portrayed the different characters of Greek mythology in his “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series 3. Significance: in order to help my reader understand how pop culture influenced different modern retellings of Greek mythology Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series focuses on a modern retelling of Greek mythology through the life of a demigod. The characters he chose to use for his

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