ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley before his death in 1822. The work was left unfinished. Shelley wrote the poem at Casa Magni in Lerici, Italy in the early summer of 1822. He modelled the poem, written in terza rima, on Petrarch’s Trionfi and Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Other interpretations of the word triumph within “The Triumph of Life” are simply procession or victory, and for Shelley the word may denote humanity’s victory over Nature and the restraints and struggles of mortal existence.

Detailed explanation-3: -CRITICAL APPRECIATION & ANALYSIS. The Theme of The Poem: The voluntary or involuntary surrender of personal integrity in exchange for non-spiritual values is the theme of Shelley’s last poem, The Triumph of Life. Triumph may mean simply procession, for the existing fragment describes a procession of phantoms.

Detailed explanation-4: -Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (/ˌædoʊˈneɪ. ɪs/) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley’s best and best-known works.

Detailed explanation-5: -What message was Shelley trying to convey with the poem Ozymandias? The major theme behind “Ozymandias” is that all power is temporary, no matter how prideful or tyrannical a ruler is. Ramesses II was one of the ancient world’s most powerful rulers.