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Bysshe
Apr 23, 2016 11:59:12 GMT -5
Post by B. on Apr 23, 2016 11:59:12 GMT -5
So despite the fact that I don't need a grade in it nor does it have anything to do with my future studies, I'm still taking English this year. One of our study topics is the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. We've studied Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Mount Blanc, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Ozymandias and England in 1819. So I have about 12 days to become an expert in Shelley- If any of you guys have any experience having studied Shelley or any of the poems mentioned, please post about it here. What do you think of Shelley as a poet? Thanks.
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Bysshe
Apr 23, 2016 12:05:04 GMT -5
Post by Reba on Apr 23, 2016 12:05:04 GMT -5
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
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Post by B. on Apr 23, 2016 12:07:13 GMT -5
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! i wish you would sometimes, fam
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Bysshe
Apr 23, 2016 12:18:46 GMT -5
Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 23, 2016 12:18:46 GMT -5
I love Shelley, but I'm afraid I haven't gotten the opportunity to really study his work yet. I'm just familiar with a certain amount of it, and so far enjoyed it without any secondary texts. I planned on reading some of Harold Bloom's "Shelley's Mythmaking," I'd assume he touches on some of the poems you mentioned.
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Bysshe
Apr 23, 2016 12:28:14 GMT -5
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Post by Reba on Apr 23, 2016 12:28:14 GMT -5
4 real though, shelley was a weird little poop irl but his poetry is extremely fun. the romanticist style seems a bit stereotypical now, so some people think it is tiresome to have such melodramatic poeticism attached to apparently obvious messages, but he is actually v misinterpreted in the interest of showing the less initiated how to analyze/appreciate a Veritable Fancy Dirge. Ode To The West Wind is my favorite because it shows how confused he is in his own radical ideas. the wind = determinism (or something) in most of his works, but in the Ode it is straight up destructive and unheeding to what he really believes in (individualism, emotion, all that conflicting romanticist stuff)
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