Ans. To Shelley, the poet is not a mere artist. He is a divine harp through which the Cosmic Power makes music for mankind. He is a reformer as well as a prophet spreading messages with a view to bringing about revolutionary changes in human history. He coin- poses verse not directed by people but of his own …

Ans: Shelley’s “To a Skylark” is a celebrated romantic poem exhibiting the poet’s intense lyricism. In addition to the imaginative idealism, succession of splendid images, subjective treatment of nature, the poem is remarkable for its spontaneity. Shelley uses a variety of poetic devices in order to bring his idea home. However, the most important poetic device …

Ans. In “To a Skylark”, Shelley uses a number of poetic devices with a view to bringing his idea home. The poem opens with the trope figure of speech called an apostrophe in which an object or a nonhuman entity–in this case, the skylark–is spoken to as though it were a living human: “Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!” …

Ans.  Percy Bysshe Shelley’s celebrated poem “To a Skylark” is abut a skylark, a miniscule bird that is famous for its song. In the poem, Shelley idealizes the bird and presents it as a unique creature. To Shelley, the skylark is an immortal being symbolizing illimitable beauty. Its music is perfect embodiment of beauty and joy …

Arnold’s Criticism: Matthew Arnold finds Shelley’s poetry wanting in “Truth and seriousness”. While commenting upon the visionary aspect of his poetry Arnold remarks : “It is his poetry, above everything else, which for many people establishes that he is an angel. But of his poetry I have not space now to speak. But let no one …

Ans. Shelley was a great imagist and the images he picked were not of ordinary types. His images are mostly kinaesthetic in nature. Most of his images are like close fitting garments of thoughts — brief, apt and illuminating. In his celebrated poem “Ode to the West Wind”, Shelley deftly uses images with a view to …

Ans. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To a Skylark” is about a skylark, a miniscule bird that is famous for its song. Shelley idealizes the bird and compares it to many different beautiful things to show that the skylark is far more superior to them. Shelley begins with exclamation with, ‘Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!’. This could …

INTRODUCTION: J.C. Smith writing on Shelley, says: “No poet suffered severer re-probation in his life and none perhaps has evoked more ardent sympathy and admiration in later years than this Strange offshoot from an otherwise undistinguished aristocratic family.’ In such a poor state and circumstances, Shelley began writing both verse and prose at a very …

Ans. Both “Ode to the West Wind” and “To a Skylark”, two of Shelley’s celebrated lyric poms, are marked by intensity of personal passion, delicacy of poetic sensibility and exuberance of emotion. Though in the poems Shelley idealizes natural phenomenon, they also reveal his idea of a poet and his function. To Shelley, the poet is …

Shelley’s position among lyric poets. Shelley has been universally accepted as one of the supreme lyrical geniuses in English poetry. He, according to Swinburne, “stands alone among singers, and he is the prefect singing god”. According to Cazamian, “Shelley’s lyricism is incomparable. In no other poet do we find the perfect sureness, the triumphant rapidity of his …