Ode to the West Wind by Percy Shelley

Mary Shelley was a young, well-educated woman from England. She was born on August 30th 1797, in London. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, was the author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. She died giving birth to Mary, leaving her daughter in the care of her husband, William Godwin. The atmosphere that Mary Shelley grew up in exposed her to cutting-edge ideas, which are shown all throughout the novel. Mary Shelley’s lover, Percy Shelley was a young poet, and as he was already married, her relationship with him wasn’t the smoothest.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin as she was born, was born August 30th, 1797 in London, England. Mary Shelley’s mother died exactly ten days after her birth so Shelley had a rather burdensome life. Her father was emotionally distant from her while her step-mother treated her cruelly as a result of what little relationship Mary did maintain with her father. Mary spoke three languages, English her primary language, French her second language of choice and Italian being the third. Although the disconnected relationships she had, Mary had always been intellectually intelligent, especially when it came to writing. Her father’s close friend who would often visit the Godwin’s home in London, Percy Bysshe Shelley, took Mary’s heart at a very young age.

Percy, Like Mary, was the furthest thing from what society considered to be normal at that period of time. “Unfettered by popular opinion, the young atheist neither ate meat nor drank alcohol.” (Qwiklit). Both seemed to move to the beat of their own drum, this may have been what attracted them to one another. They seemed to be a gothic couple’s dream come true, so it was only right that they took the next step. Percy asked Mary’s father William Godwin for her hand in union and was rejected for reasons unknown. Young dumb and in love the Shelley’s refused to take no for an answer. They promptly left London and eloped France without her father’s consent. Though it sounds irresponsible on their part this was probably one of the best things to happen to the Shelley’s, especially marry. “Mary Godwin, as she was known before her elopement with percy Bysshe Shelley, was naturally precocious, but William’s stature as a public intellectual permitted her to access hundreds of books most could not retrieve, and allowed her to encounter some of the greatest minds in the Western World before she had even reached puberty. She

Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London (Fraistat et al.). At the twilight of the Age of Enlightenment, Shelley was influenced heavily by romanticism ideology. Individualism, idealism, and interest in the world of nature were prominent ideas during Shelley’s lifetime (“Brief Guide”). Compared to the industrial revolution, where citizens sought to better society as a whole, romantic ideologies thought societies could permanently damage an individual. The themes of isolation and community are noticeable throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

She grew up surrounded by radical often revolutionary people during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of frequent political and civil unrest and accelerating change in society. Although based in independence and spent significant formative time away in Scotland with family friends where she explored her personal freedom, freedom to develop a view of herself as the creative, wilful heroine. Shelly was influenced by many due to her parent’s social status, especially her mother. Mary Wollstonecraft was a particular powerful influence, strong opinionated feminist. Her father William Godwin also had a profound bearing on Shelly’s life and thought, as did Percy Shelly, her lover, then husband. Lord Byron, who prompted the preliminary writing of the story, could also be added to the list.

Once married, Shelley moved to the Lake District of England to study and write. Shelly and Harriet had a daughter named Lathe. Shelley began spending time at the home of the anarchist political philosopher William Godwin, where he meets Godwin's sixteen-year-old daughter Mary. Although Harriet is expecting their second child, Percy and Mary fall in love. The couple is forced to live apart while Shelley goes into hiding to escape his creditors. During his time in hiding he writes the poem Alastor. Harriet Westbrook gives birth to Percy Shelley's second child, a son named Charles while Mary Godwin gives birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Clara. The baby is two months premature and dies only two weeks after birth. Later, Mary Godwin gives birth to the couple's second child, William. Due to all of this confusion, Shelley's wife Harriet Westbrook commits suicide by throwing herself into London's Serpentine River while she was pregnant with the couples third child. Percy Shelley's life was very disarrayed when it came to his marriage situation. He was having many children, and at the same time was attempting to write and publish literature. Percy always wanted some relaxation time, and to get a break from his everyday

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later known as Mary Shelley, was born in Somers Town, London, England on August 30, 1797. ("Mary Shelley Biography.") Born to William Godwin, a journalist, philosopher, and novelist, and Mary Wollstonecraft, an educator, and feminist philosopher. Sadly, her

In 1814 Mary Shelley met a poet named Percy Shelley. They struggled financially and they also faced the loss of the child a few days after

He was born in a farmer family on Long Island. After dropping out of school, he started to work as a printer at age 11. He continued to work as a carpenter, teacher, newspaper writer and editor. His first knowledge of the people he was later to write about in his poem is from his travels around the United States and his different occupations. Americans, who inspired Walt Whitman, were so meaningful to him.

Mary was sixteen years old when she met Percy Bysshe Shelley, a twenty-one year old Romantic poet, as well as one of her father’s students. They soon developed a romantic relationship even though he was married to another woman, named Harriet Westbrook, at the time. Godwin was so upset about the relationship that “he immediately wrote to Shelley and forbade

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself / and what I shall assume you shall assume” (Whitman 1-2). These lines not only open up the beginning of one the best poems of the American Romantic period, but they also represent a prominent theme of one of this period’s best poet, Walt Whitman. In Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, Whitman deals with his time period’s most prominent theme of democracy. Whitman tells readers that they must not only observe the democratic life but they must become one with it. As Whitman states, “For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” (3). Democracy provides a connection with all people. It is as if Joseph Stella felt this connection and decided to depict it in his collection of paintings entitled “Americans in the Rough.” The individual is of no greater or lesser worth than anyone else. Beatrice Marovich states that, “It is a song for fellow Americans, about the American body politic” (349). An analysis of Song of Myself portrays that understanding and becoming one with democracy through political collectivity essentially sets the stage for the American democratic self. Joseph Stella does a great job of interpreting and depicting Whitman’s ideals of democracy through his illustrations representing every facet of an American democratic life.

Percy Shelley an ancient poet of the 16th century. He falls under the category of one of the major English poets who are romantic. The recognition of his works developed radically after his death. He was a also a key member who belonged to the closest circle of poets who were very visionary. Such poets included, Leigh hunt, his second wife Mary Shelley who wrote the book Frankenstein, Thomas love peacock and lord Byron. This document therefore seeks to talk about the various works of Percy Shelley and how most of it has been used.

The beauty of nature is often overlooked and underappreciated in today’s society. The neglect and lack of respect given to such a beautiful creation by members of society is widely reflected in Romantic poetry. The romantic era began in 1798, where writers such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge expressed their opinions and feelings towards nature. Overall such writers typically express a positive outlook on the natural world around them, however some stray the other way. Specifically Coleridge and Wordsworth began to express the feeling of disconnect towards nature. Both writers began to feel as though they could not understand nature and cannot connect with the beauty it gives off as expressed in poems such as “Dejection”, “London 1802”, and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”. Not only did some of these writers begin to feel a disconnect but a select few also begin to feel as though people are disrespecting the balance of nature and are trying to disrupt the balance and manipulate it. Writers such as Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein, expresses the concern of people taking the laws of nature and twisting them. Writers and people living during this time period not only express an appreciation for nature but also the truth about the human relationship with nature. The relationship between humans and nature is on of mistreatment.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was the definition of a Romantic poet. His philosophical beliefs emphasize the significance of aestheticism and his verse unmistakably depicted the magnificence and grandness of the natural world. In the same way as other of his Romantic associates, Shelley 's own particular life was short, disastrous, and brimming with hardships. Suffocated in a sailing mischance before the age of thirty, his one yearning that his words would affect and move did not turn into a reality until long after his flight. In his lyric, "Tribute toward the West Wind," Shelley utilizes imagery, analogy, meter, symbolism, and numerous different gadgets to display the force of nature and the speaker 's promise for this energy to end up some portion of him in his main goal to achieve motivation and change for innovative procedures.