The Poems Of The Poem, Hymn Of Intellectual Beauty, By Percy Shelley

The nature around them is symbolic of their emotions and mental states. For example, the weather turned stormy when Victor’s mood worsened (ch. 10). Victor also feels that nature, “gives wings to the soul and allows it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy.” (ch.10) Nature has a calming and peaceful effect on both of them when they are not in good mental health; using nature to clear their minds. It is not surprising that Mary Shelley wrote this during the period of transcendentalism. In this time period, books like Walden by Henry David Thoreau highlighted the importance of nature. These similarities in how they interact with nature show their deeper similarities in mentality.

The life of a poet is often a quiet one. From being left isolated by mental and physical illness, to being struck by life-changing tragedy, Christina Rossetti channels her intense emotions through writing. Often creating poetry was her one true release, as most of the time her depression caused her to be unhealthily apathetic. The less interested she became in the world around her, the more intense poetry she would write. With her sentences, she paints scenes that should be beautiful and distorts them, emphasizing the fact that everything can have a negative side. Rossetti, a nineteenth-century English poet, creates an incongruity in her work by comparing the beauty of seasons, flowers, and animals to the burden of her depression.

“Ode to enchanted light,” by Pablo Neruda, is a free verse poem in which the speaker expresses an appreciation for nature’s sheer beauty. The ode deals with the serious themes of pureness, beauty, and justice. The tone of Neruda’s poem can be implied as hopeful and optimistic. “Sleeping in the Forest,” by Mary Oliver, is also a free verse lyric poem whereas the speaker is cleansed by the natural world. The speaker expresses private emotions and thoughts on nature. Both “Ode to enchanted light” and “Sleeping in the Forest” convey an appreciation of different aspects of nature.

The similarities between the poems lie in their abilities to utilize imagery as a means to enhance the concept of the fleeting nature that life ultimately has and to also help further elaborate the speaker’s opinion towards their own situation. In Keats’ poem, dark and imaginative images are used to help match with the speaker’s belief that both love and death arise from fate itself. Here, Keats describes the beauty and mystery of love with images of “shadows” and “huge cloudy symbols of a high romance” to illustrate his belief that love comes from fate, and that he is sad to miss out on such an opportunity when it comes time for his own death.

After a complete analysis of “Beauty” by Tony Hoagland, there are multiple ways he succeeds in writing a meaningful poem. Each of the literary devices used played an important role in perfecting his poem. Hoagland did an excellent job at sending a message and his tone played an important role in making the message more sincere. Hoagland's use of imagery, figurative language, and personification made his poem more entertaining to read. Throughout this poem, Tony Hoagland shows that beauty, along with poetry, goes deeper than the

John Muir and William Wordsworth are great examples of this theory. Throughout their stories, both men give great insight to how the harmony of nature impacts their lives in a way that can make them forget about all the sorrow and depression they have following behind them; Wordsworth and Muir’s stories include syntax and diction to verbalize their passionate relationship towards nature. William Wordsworth’s poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” excellently shows how the power of beauty can changes one's once depressed, sad day into joy and blissfulness. In Wordsworth's story, he exploits his experience of how nature changed his mood of depression and sorrow to grateful and glee when he stumbles across a bed of beautiful golden daffodils dancing in the breeze. Wordsworth writes: “A poet could not be but gay, in such a jocund company” (stanza 3). In this passage, Wordsworth shows his change of heart when in the presence of something so beautiful and alluring. Wordsworth also shows how nature impacts his mood from the quote: “They flash upon the inward eye, and my heart with pleasure fills” (stanza 4). In this final quote, Wordsworth explains that even when he is apart from the beautiful golden daffodils, it is the memory that keeps his spirits alive. While Wordsworth's experience with nature

The similarities in the poem deal with similar topics expressed throughout the poem dealing with Keats’ and Longfellow’s fear of death. Differences between the two include the structure and the different images, metaphors and diction that they give off along with their different train of thoughts while writing the two poems. Their thoughts of the subject of death are able to relate to a variety of people because everyone is just human and cannot last forever. Just as these two poems show similar ideas can branch off into many different ideas and interpretations. The desire to continue to

The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence- and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.” Shelley's style is typical of the Romantic Period, much like the style of her husband and the other major Romantic poets. She uses elevated language and puts a lot of emphasis on the spiritual aspect of nature.

The world has several great poets and many mind-blowing works, each with its own way of portraying its own message and some the same ones. Jane Flanders wrote the poem named “Cloud Painter” she shows the world from an artistic way, using a painter and his canvas to help the reader picture the true meaning behind the words and images created. Robert Frost takes on the same idea but uses a less complex example so that it makes his work easy to understand while not revealing the real meaning of the poem. Frost and Flanders are just two of the many poets that use nature as a way of explaining the very lessons in life. Each poet has a different way of presenting similar images but from a different perspective.

One of the purposes that are displayed by Shelley’s particular writing style is the romanticizing of nature. This viewpoint is forced to be admired and spotlighted in human interactions as an example of a greater and bigger truth. “The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the

Nature can be one of the most awe inspiring things in the world. Nature has been the inspiration and basis for which man has created many things in this world. Nature is also one of the most beautiful things in the world and has so much to offer people, but some people don’t take the time to go out and enjoy nature often enough. Some people are surrounded by nature’s beauty every day, but often fail to fully appreciate nature’s beauty. However, that is not the case for poets Elizabeth Bishop and Lord Alfred Tennyson. In Bishop’s poem “The Fish” and Tennyson’s poem “The Eagle”, the poets do a masterful job of telling the world how beautiful nature truly is and showing their reverence for nature through numerous literary methods. One can see how the poems “The Fish” and “The Eagle” both present a theme of reverence for nature by looking at the poet’s use of imagery, symbolism, and structure.

Within Keats’ works of Literature, Sarah Schulman’s “Empathy,” and Jeffers’ works of literature, all of them together portray a sense of beauty in some way, symbolizing its true meaning. Beauty is along the lines of each of these authors and poets, but represented in various ways, showing that beauty has multiple meanings. Alongside the unique views shown through these authors’ lenses, they all come together to show what beauty can stand for. Also, what emerges the most within these written works is the notion of beauty and how it comes to realization in contrasting circumstances.

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell try to convey the same message of beauty in poetry. In “Letter One” of Letter to a Young Poet the author believes beauty lies within the individual and as long as they believe their art is beautiful, then it will be. In Black Swan Green the author feels beauty cannot be created; it simply exists and occurs. Although Mitchell believes beauty just exists, there are certain topics that can influence an object or piece of art to be beautiful. Both works share the idea that beauty is found within a piece of art, not created by the artist.

Percy Shelley uses ideas or nature or beauty to describe the human mind. Shelley compares humans and things that we experience to nature by showing the similarities. At times his poems seem very dreamlike and very thoughtful. Shelley is different from the earlier Romantic poets because at times his poems seem to get a little dark and his not scared to talk about death. He really bounders on the idea of death and life. Like his weighing their value and he at times make death sound beautiful.

Both poems are sonnets that focus on early death; however, each poet displays different emotions for life and death in their poems. On the one hand, Keats displays an optimistic view of life, but is contemptuous towards death since it will mark an unwanted end to his artistic, romantic, and countless other endeavors. On the other, Longfellow distrusts life and fears death. As an indicator of these contrasting sentiments, the poets not only use significantly different types of poems, but they also differ in their rhetorical devices’ purposes in the shared iambic pentameter structure. In particular, they use imagery, diction, mechanical devices and metaphors in varying extents and purposes.