Percy Bysshe Shelley

Feminism is a movements aimed to equal rights between men and women so in Shelley's time it was just started and through Frankenstein's novel she pointed out one of the most powerful work of feminism in London 1818. Shelley was 18 years old when she wrote this story. When she was in Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who later became her husband, they stayed at their friend Lord Byron's castle. They decided to compete for writing the best horror…...

He was the eldest seven children of Timothy Shelley, he born in Sussex, England on August 4, 1792 and died at sea offed Viareggio, Lucca, Lucca (now in Italy) July 8th, 1822. Mary Shelley’s father did not agree for letting his daughter and Percy Bysshe Shelley planning to go travel around the Europe, he was eventually angry and shook with it. Mary’s step-sister Jane helped them get escaped to Europe, they’ve travelled to France and Switzerland. But Shelley had to…...

Ozymandias and Spring and Fall are two poems, which at first glance have little in common. Ozymandias is a traveller's tale, a story that reminds the reader of something they have read before, perhaps in a children's book, long ago. This is shown in the first line - "I met a traveller from an antique land". It sounds like the beginning of a well-known story and the reader can tell instantly that it will be about the past by the…...

Explore the Effect of Shelley's Authorial Craft on the Reader in Chapter Five and Chapter Eleven of Frankenstein. How Successfully Does She Create Empathy With the Narrator? The tale of Frankenstein could be said to be one of the most shocking, paranormal and famous novels of all time. Twisted with terror, aspiration, horror and catastrophe, 'Frankenstein' is a favourite for English Literature studies, and has also been produced as a successful cinema horror movie. The book was written by Mary…...

The title of the poem looks like it is going to be about someone who was important once upon a time. Paraphrase The writer met a traveler who saw the powerful pharaoh Ozymandias or he saw his statue. The traveler tells the writer that the statue was all in pieces in the sand in the middle of the desert. Ozymandias was a great and powerful king but nothing left from him and his empire anymore. Connotation: Metaphor: the statue represents…...

"Ozymandias" (pron.: /ˌɒziˈmændiəs/,[2] also pronounced with four syllables in order to fit the poem's meter) is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1818 in the 11 January issue of The Examiner in London. It is frequently anthologised and is probably Shelley's most famous short poem. It was written in competition with his friend Horace Smith, who wrote another sonnet entitled "Ozymandias" seen below. In addition to the power of its themes and imagery, the poem is notable for…...

In this poem, the speaker observes a bird, the skylark. The speaker seems a bit jealous of the freedom of the skylark, which travels wherever it wants to go. The skylark flies too high for the speaker to see, but the speaker still hears its song, which makes it appear to be more of a spirit. The skylark and its song becomes the speaker’s muse as he continues to observe the bird and its song. The speaker admits to not…...

The Prelude is an auto-biographical, epic poem by William Wordsworth, 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley is a much shorter poem, however it correlates closely to a passage from Wordsworth's epic where he describes a walking trip he took to Mont Blanc. There are some startling similarities between the two pieces, but at the same time there are sharp contrasts in the way that the scene is represented and the poets have conflicting views on what this beautiful landscape means…...

I chose the poem Ode to The West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley because I was attracted to the many images Shelley painted in the poem. Nature is a very interesting and powerful force and the way Shelley portrays it in this poem really caught my attention. Shelley also emphasizes the importance of words and their potential impact on a society if shared. This is a concept I found quite intriguing. In my research, I found that when Shelley wrote…...