ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -9.2 Abstract: Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the important English romantic lyric poets. He remains a central role in English Romanticism. The theme in his work includes religious fervor, nature, Ancient Greek aesthetics, and emotional response to beauty. These are components of Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-2: -The poet is a nightingale in Shelley’s opinion “a nightingale, which sits in the darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”. Then he goes further to claim that “poets are prophets”. Therefore, for Shelley a poet is someone dignified and has the superiority over the others.

Detailed explanation-3: -Blake’s use of images, symbols, metaphors and revolutionary spirit combined with simple diction and spontaneous expression of thoughts and emotions make him a typical romantic poet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Love of nature, imagination, melancholy, super-naturalism, Hellenism, beauty, idealism, and subjectivity are the main romantic themes found throughout Shelley’s poetry.