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PERCY B. SHELLEY - Coggle Diagram
PERCY B. SHELLEY
POETIC
Second romantic wave
Alfred Tennyson
John Keats
passions
Byron
political radicalism
supports working class
Esteticism
joy, magnanimity, faith in humanity, optimism
LIFE
studied in Oxford
expelled for a pamphlet
married Mary Wollstonecraft
Noble family
B. 1792 D. 1822
meets Byron
in Pisa they formed a circle of english expatriates
dies at 30
in Italy he is the most productive
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
French Revolution
working class protests
Industrial Revolution
American Revolution
WORKS
Song to the Men of England
call to revolution
against aristocrats
posthumous in 1839
Ozymandias
written in a friendly competition
the worldly fate of history and the ravages of time
impermanence
1818
Ozymandias was a Greek name for the pharaoh Ramesses II
hybris of a leader
power is ephemeral
sonnet
To a Skylark
21 stanzas
The skylark's song is a metaphor or symbol of Nature
1820
illusive quest to find the meaning of nature
(that I have to study)
On a Faded Violet