SHELLEY’S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFEWRITE A NOTE ON SHELLEY’S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. Introduction. Shelley is not only a successful Romanticist but also an inspiring philosopher. He was enough of a philosopher not merely to enjoy ideals for their own sake but to make them a starting-point for bold speculations in which he found the thrill of …
SHELLEY’S IDEALISM . Shelley’s idealism falls under three subheadings Revolutionary, religious and Erotic. (i) Revolutionary Idealis : His revolutionary idealism is mainly due to the French Revolution. Through his Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam, and Prometheus Unbound he inspired people to revolt against tyranny by scorning at the tyranny of state, church and society and hoping for a …
SHELLEY AS A ROMANTIC POET Q.i. Write a note on Shelley as a Romantic. Introduction: Grierson did rightly say, “Classic and Romantic are terms no attempts to define which will ever seem entirely convincing to ourselves or others”. So everyone tries to attribute one’s own views to “Romanticism”. For, to Hem and Beers, Romanticism is synonymous with Mediaevalism; …
SHELLEY, A SATIRIST Shelley, A Satirist: To comment upon Shelley’s sarcasm, Peter Bell The Third is the apt example. It is a satire on Wordsworth, a “dull” poet and recalls the earlier Wordsworth, a man of false ideals who composed poems on ‘moor and glen and rocky Lake/And on the heart of man’. Shelley criticizes the reactionary politician who once …
SHELLEY’S DEVELOPMENT AS A POET Trace Shelley’s development as a poet illustrating itfrom the prescribed poems. 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 …
INFLUENCES OF GODWIN, PLATO AND ROUSSEAU ON SHELLEY Q.i. “Shelley was greatly influenced by Godwin, Plato and Rousseau”. Illustrate the idea citing examples from the prescribed poems.Ans: Shelley is much devoted to Godwin, Plato and Rousseau for his thought and poetry. Godwin’s book ‘Political Justice’ has profoundly influenced Shelley’s iconoclastic rationalism and his opinions on politics and …
SHELLEY’S PLACE IN LITERATURE Two Schools of Criticism of Shelly’s Writings. To extreme schools of Shelley criticism are represented, on one side by Matthew Arnold and on the other side by Swinburne. (1) Matthew Arnold in his somewhat laboured plea for the supremacy of Wordsworth and Byron in 19th century poetry describes Shelley as a “beautiful and …
Shelly’s Didacticism. There is a strong didactic tendency in Shelley. He often wishes to impress a moral upon us but his method of giving us a moral is different from that of the neo classical poets like Pope. He does not give us a moral directly that would be unromantic. He merely paints a picture and leaves us …
Shelly’s Love for Greek Mythology. All the younger Romantics are lovers of Greek mythology. Shelley’s interest in the mythological stories of Greece finds expression in Hellas and Prometheus Unbound and in many other poems.
Shelly’s Imagery or Pictorial Quality: Shelley’s imagery is kaleidoscopic, i.e. he does not give one or two pictures at a time, but a whole series of them. In the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty for instance, we have the pictures of summer winds creeping from flower to flower, moonbeams falling behind some piny mountain, hues and harmonies of evening, …