Percy Bysshe Shelley unlike his former constituents grew up wealthy. He resented that fact though. He endured harrassment and always seemed to blame the abuse he suffered at school on the fact that he was rich. He was not well liked by society due to some of his graphic work. He was often misunderstood as being evil and outcasted when truthfully he was smart and most of what he wrote about and learned was enhanced by science. In his work Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, he often explained things in a truthful and yet saddening manner.
Mother of this unfathomable world!
Favour my solemn song, for I have loved.....
Keep record of the trophies won from thee,
Hoping to still these obstinate questionings
Of thee and thine, by forcing some lone ghost(p615)
He describes that he will be leaving the world and eventhough he is going to die, the world must still be loved. He was unlike Byron because the way that he felt was unraveled in the poem with a softening effect and does not come off accusatory.
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Tamica,
ReplyDeleteOK comments on Shelley, although there is not much cohesion between your two paragraphs. I would have liked to have seen more set up for the passage you quote, with information on the context, and more in depth analysis after the passage.