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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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The earth is mostly associated with the feminity,
fertility,rebirth and stability
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The imagery of winged seeds are like the
rebirth of poet's decayed thought
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The wind shows its power over air too
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The imagery of air
creates a sensory experience of the poet's inspiration for creation of such a poetry that
may go far beyond his reach and bring the change and revolution far and wide
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"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams,
The blue Mediterranean,where he lay
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The west wind awakens the sea itself
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Like west wind power over the
deep sea the speaker requests his thoughts to be found not superficially but deep in the hearts of
people
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Fourth imagery is of "Fire"
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The poet compares his
thoughts to sparks and ashes
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Hearth is a
controllable fire, it might be the case the poet wanted west wind or his emotions to be
controlled not feeling like ghosts
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West wind is the fifth element that dominates other four elements
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Most of
his poems combine the various elements of Shelley’s genius in their most complete
expression, and unite harmoniously his lyrically creative power of imagination and his
“passion for reforming the world”
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His imagery drawn
from the operation of the human mind is also different from conventional poetic principle
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His images are
mostly kinaesthetic in nature
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