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P. B. Shelley, Imagination, imagination - Coggle Diagram
P. B. Shelley
CHILDHOOD
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Part of a wealthy conservative family,
heir of a considerable fortune
STUDIES
Went to Oxford University, expelled because of his pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism(where he refused all religions)
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LITERARY PRODUCTION
POEMS
ODE TO THE WEST WIND, TO A SKYLARK, A DEFENCE OF POETRY,
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FREEDOM AND LOVE
he rejected social conventions,political oppression and any form of tyranny
he believed in the principles of freedom and love, considered as remedies for the faults and evil of society
NATURE:
He used symbols coming from nature and used nature as a refuge from the disappointments and injustice of ordinary world.
THE POET'S TASK
The poet is prophet and a titan, and his task is to help mankind reach an ideal world (freedom, love and beauty replacing tyranny, destruction and alienation). Sh. was worried about England's situation (England in 1819)
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