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    indebted and grateful to all those who in some way on the order helped me and extended their kind co-operation to me from time to time during the emposition of this dissertation. It is indeed a great pleasure to work upon a the detail study of Shelley. A Defence of poetry and to prepare dissertation on it. First off all I owe a sense of deep gratitude to my supervisior Dr. Mrs. Vandana Chauhan Lecturer English Department Govt. P.G. College Kotdwara without personal care and constant encouragement

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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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    ercy Bysshe Shelley ( /ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/;[2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley was his second wife. He is most famous for such classic anthology verse works as Ozymandias‚ Ode to the West Wind‚ To a Skylark‚ Music‚ When Soft Voices Die‚ The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy‚ which

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    Mary Shelley is an esteemed author known for her works in the horror genre. One of her techniques that she uses in her most famous novel Frankenstein‚ is parallelism. The point of view in which this story is told is first person from the character Victor Frankenstein. She goes into detail about his childhood his family early on in the book‚ and it is evident that she uses the same diction to describe both his mother‚ Caroline Beaufort‚ and his adopted cousin‚ Elizabeth Lavenza; this reveals to the

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    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 if the poem

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    “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is one of the most well-known books in history‚ however what many people do not know about this book is that Mary Shelley wrote it to satire The Enlightenment (Sylvia 23). A brief summary of “Frankenstein”‚ is that one day a man named Robert Walton‚ meets up with Victor Frankenstein‚ who then tells Walton about his life. Frankenstein’s life started in Geneva where he grew up a happy child. After childhood Victor attends university where he studies natural philosophy

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    The myth I am doing my essay on is Prometheus. Prometheus is a Greek story‚ but the person who translated the story is Mary Shelley. Mary’s Frankenstein is the modern day version of Prometheus; he wants to give humans the power of technology that can lead to immortality. In the Greek myth‚ Prometheus wants to give humans fire. So they both want to give humans something that gods possess. Prometheus suffers by being chained to a rock for eternity and has his liver eaten everyday by an eagle. Frankenstein’s

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    like Shelley‚ exalted the power of imagination‚ Shelley criticizes this ideal by showing how it may lead to obsession. The influence of Mary Shelley’s parents‚ other writers‚ such as her husband Percy Shelley and Byron‚ and the use of Gothic novel literature help her emphasize imagination‚ the concern with the particular‚ the value of the individual human being‚ and the supernatural. Mary Shelley’s parents were famous writers and intellectuals in England. Her father was a philosopher

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    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 contains numerous themes. Shelley experienced first-hand the French Revolution.

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    foundations of neoclassicism and its complementary sense of reason and enlightenment. Romanticism with its emphasis on feeling‚ passion‚ imagination and emotion was spreading malignantly. It was this concoction of imagination and passion that allowed Shelley to question the scientific endeavour and its associated consequences of the era and to challenge her audience reconsider them. I will discuss the most prominent views of the era‚ which were that scientists could fully account for what makes up humanity

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