LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY
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Question
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Paul O’Brien’s essay on Shelley suggests that Shelley was ____
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Not an atheist
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In love with Lord Byron
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Suicidal
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Fiercely anti-war
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -According to him and even to Shelley, human being have this imagination that connects him with all nature. Keats thought that the poet had to use this imagination; not an imagination of fantasy, but rather experience. He believed that imagination was a means through which you explore your own experience.
Detailed explanation-2: -As Shelley explains in his essay A Defence of Poetry, he believes that poetry expands and nurtures the imagination, and that the imagination enables sympathy, and that sympathy, or an understanding of another human being’s situation, is the basis of moral behavior.
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