10 Extraordinary Musical Gift. No poet has succeeded so perfectly in welding music and thought– of synchronizing, as it were the vibration of rhythm and emotion. “He changes the rhythm, not only from stanza to stanza and line to line, but from word to word, with every slightest variation of feeling.” “Shelley has the gift of …
9. Love of Freedom, Love and Beauty. Freedom is the breath of Shelley’s works—freedom not only from the tyranny of earthly powers, but from the tyranny of religion, expressing itself in republicanism, in pseudo atheism, and in complete emancipation from the current moral code both in conduct and in writing. Liberty, equality, and fraternity were ideals which …
8. Shelley as a Prophet. Shelley has his place, says Prof. Elton, apart and secure among the English prophets, in the great line from King Alfred to Carlyle. “He has a clear and sublime vision of the hops of mankind. He wishes to see the world freed from all the enslavements of the brain, and from the sloth …
7. Shelley’s Lyricism. Shelley’s genius was essentially lyrical, and he reigns supreme in the vast domain of lyricism. The lyrical mood predominates in all his works. His moods, impressions, thoughts and emotions embodied themselves naturally in verse. In lyric, as E.W. Edmunds remarks, Shelley is among the greatest poets of the world because of the purity at once of his melody …
6. Shelley’s Marvellous Poetic Genius. Here Prof. Cazamian’s view have been summarized. Shelley’s poetic genius was marvellous, though his span of life was very short, and it was cut off at twenty-nine. Shelley’s poetry is suffused with a creative beauty of a purely poetical quality which has appeared in no other English poet with the exception of Spenser, and to a lesser …
20. Resume of the Symposium: Shelley was a man of lofty and generous character. He was filled with a passion for reforming the world. He idealized Love as the saving emotion of humanity; to him Love was what Beauty was to Keats, the guiding principle of life. He was no mean thinker though sometimes vague and misty. …
5. Shelley’s Idealism in His Poetry: Shelley was a magnificent idealist. “Shelley,” says Elton, “is more constantly a poet of the idealizing type than any other except possibly Spenser. If Byron is a great interpreter of revolutionary iconoclasm, Shelley on the contrary, is a great revolutionary idealist, and a poetic prophet of faith and hope in …
The world is weary of the past 4. Platonism in Shelly: The views here are based mainly on L. Winstanley essay on ‘Platonism in Shelley. Shelley was by nature one of the most studious of all English poets; from his Oxford days onwards Greek was his favourite reading and for Plato he had natural affinity of …
Shelley’s Philosophy of Human Life. O. W. Campbell has elaborated Shelley’s concept of human life in contrast with Plato the renowned Greek philosopher. His Dialogues and his Republic are among the greatest works of the ancients and embody a philosophical system which has served for admiration and discussion in all succeeding ages. According to 0. W. Campbell, from his earliest youth …
Q.S. Discuss the symbolic significance of Shelley’s “Ode to a Skylark”. [NU. 2008] Ans. In “To a Skylark” the speaker addresses the skylark as a “blithe Spirit” rather than a bird, for its song comes from Heaven, and from its full heart pours “profuse strains of unpremeditated art”. The skylark flies higher and higher, “like a cloud of …