Percy bysshe shelley is the greatest lyric poet in England in the19th century. Shelley 1792 was born in Essex, England on August 4, 1992. He began to learn Latin at the age of 6, and then studied mathematics, French, astronomy, geography, physics and chemistry. /kloc-entered the noble middle school at the age of 0/2. Among his classmates, he has a strong aversion to all despicable and decadent people and things and never compromises. Willing to help the weak and the bullied.
18 10, Shelley began to enter the field of literature, co-wrote a long poem "The Wandering Jew" with a friend, and wrote two legendary stories himself. This year, he entered Oxford University to study. A year later, he violated the church by publishing a pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism", was expelled from school, and was driven out of the house by his father.
18 15, Shelley's father passed away. After receiving financial assistance from his family, Shelley gradually entered the heyday of his creation.
Young Shelley loves nature and usually likes to spend his youth outdoors. He often sails on the sea, lying in a boat and scorching in the hot sun, just like a child who likes a paper boat drifting along the river. He likes to write poems about the sea. His famous poems were written on the beach, on the roofs of villas by the sea, on beautiful boats, or in caves by the sea.
18 16, Shelley met Byron and became close and friendly. 18 18 Shelley was deprived of custody of her children by the British court on the pretext of atheism and was forced to leave the motherland for Italy, where she lived with Bai Lun on the Mediterranean coast.
Shelley wrote many poems in his life. He defined poetry as: "Poetry is the image of life expressed by eternal truth." He fully affirmed the combat effectiveness and social function of poetry. He said: "The power of a poet can influence others, not others." Through creative practice, he faithfully realized his literary ideas.
Shelley wrote the famous ode to the west wind in 18 19. When Shelley lived in Italy, he wrote many romantic poems, full of beautiful and energetic fantasies. Ode to the west wind is the pinnacle of this kind of poetry. It is a pearl in the treasure house of world poetry. In this poem, on the one hand, the poet accurately and powerfully describes a series of natural sowing, driving away chaotic clouds, releasing thunder and lightning, awakening the Mediterranean from the deep sleep in summer, and painting the Atlantic with solemn autumn colors. He wrote about how nature changed under the influence of the west wind. On the other hand, the poet took it as a symbol of the whole reality at that time and pinned his hopes for the future. Isn't that the "dead leaf" of the reactionary forces? Although seemingly outnumbered, the "winged seeds"-revolutionary ideas that spread like wildfire-are hidden underground. Only when spring thunder rings will the world be full of colors and fragrance. The old will give way to the new. The poet asked Xifeng to cheer him up and let him sing revolutionary songs.
Please spread my withered thoughts to the universe and let it give birth to new life like dead leaves. Shelley's revolutionary optimism made him make a prediction resounding through Europe at the end of his poem, and we heard the poet's call from the whole soul:
Winter is coming, west wind, how can spring be far away?
The poet hopes that poetry can promote the birth of a new world like the west wind. "May you blow a warning from my mouth" awakens the sleeping earth like a horn of prophecy.
Shelley's other lyric poetry has rich imagination and beautiful emotions. Such as clouds, larks, changing the moon, etc. He is good at expressing his thoughts and feelings in describing natural scenery.
In Shelley's lyric poems, the protagonist is often full of confidence, which is in harmony with nature. He is convinced that nature and society are in eternal change, and temporary pain and darkness will eventually become happiness and joy.
Shelley's poems expressed the most advanced ideas in Europe at that time. In the preface of Prometheus Liberated, Shelley expressed his hope to change the world through creation.
In the history of English poetry, Shelley's lyric poems are outstanding. Rich imagination, harmonious phonology, beautiful metaphor and profound philosophy are really rare. His lyric poems and Byron's narrative poems are also the pinnacles of English poetry, which are worth reciting carefully.
1On July 8th, 822, Shelley returned to Leric by boat from Rivero. On the way, he was suddenly caught in a storm, and the boat capsized, taking away the poet's young life at the age of 30. After several long days and nights, his body was found in Shaxiong. According to local laws, anything floating from the sea must be burned, so Shelley's body was cremated by Byron and Trelawney. On that day, in the clear sky of Wan Li, the flame rose very high and gave off dazzling golden light, and finally the body of a generation of poet Shelley was cremated. Surprisingly, the heart was intact and was snatched from the white-baked fire by Trelawney.
Shelley's ashes were sent to Rome and buried in the Protestant cemetery next to the Pyramid of Sessus. On the cemetery, a stone tablet was erected to commemorate the poet's burial place. On the stone tablet, the poet's name is engraved: percy bysshe shelley, and under his name, two Latin words are engraved: wholeheartedly.
This concise inscription is his wife Mary's evaluation of his character and the most practical and profound praise for Shelley's life.