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Shelley’s Creative Genius: Poetic imagery
Introduction:
Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the epic poets of the 19th century and is best
known for his classic anthology verse work such as Ode to the West Wind
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Being very sensitive and possessing distinctive qualities of hope, love, joy and
imagination, Shelley strongly believed in realization of human happiness
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He was born on 4th of August 1792 in England
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Shelley’s Famous Writings:
Poetry: Shelley defines poetry as the mind at work through the power of analytical
imagination upon thoughts produced by the faculty of synthesizing reason
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The best known classic poems of Shelley include “Ode to the West Wind, “Ozymandias”,
“Music, To a Skylark”, “The Triumph of Life”, and “The Revolt of Islam”
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With no difference from other poets, Shelley’s
imagery has both typical features of British Romantic poetry and unique characteristic of his own
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 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Nature imagery” often combines description of the external
world with expression of the inner world
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 His “Italian imagery” including the images of Italian land and architecture exerts much
influence on Shelley’s poetry, which can be seen from his letters and poems
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 His “Reflexive imagery” recurrent throughout Shelley’s poetry, draws much attention
from literary critics
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The poem contains one central
image: the shattered statue of Ozymandias, the Egyptian king
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Despite the “vast” and “colossal” proportions of the statue—
indications of its former distinction—the figure is shattered and alone amidst an expanse of
desert
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The crumbling statue is well on its way to such
a state
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The imagery of "Earth" has been observed in the following lines:

"If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear
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Here winged seeds and dead leaf represents imagery of Earth

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