Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Butler Yeats use of pastoral poetry in his poems Lake Isle of Innisfree and Easter 1916 his use of this type descriptive language evokes the reader to imagine a rural Irish life rich in folklore and fairytales. Yeats’ also urges his reader to envision life in the picturesque world, he used this style of writing to bring about a feeling of nationalism but with the preservation of Irish history. In the poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeats uses pastoral imagery to describe the Western…

Analysis of To Autumn by John Keats The poem ‘To Autumn’ is written by John Keats (31.October 1795 – 23.February 1821). The speaker starts the poem by describing autumns’ abundance and its intimacy with the sun. How autumn ripens fruits and causes the flowers to bloom. In the second stanza, the speaker describes the hard work in the field, how the crops and fruits are ready to be harvested. In the third stanza, the speaker describes the sound and the music of autumn. The speaker tells Autumn…

From childbirth to adulthood one seeks happiness. This happiness can take form as toys, love, and companionship. However, one's desire for happiness is not without pain and suffering. For instance, Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," depicts an unnamed speaker yearning to obtain a Mistress's love, but is overcome with anxiety due to his idea that life is short. Furthermore, in "When I have Fears," John Keats displays his desires to achieve fame and love, but becomes defeated upon realization…

Ozymandias his real name Adrian Alexander Veidt, he does not have a superhero power but he is an intelligent person. He is known as “the smartest man in the world” and came from a wealthy family. The novel concentrated on heroes who revealed Ozymandias’s intention to unite the world through taking away the lives of millions of innocent souls then blaming a non-existent invasion by an alien. Ozymandias says “the only person with whom I felt any kinship with died three hundred years before the…

Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a short sonnet that provides readers with the simple, yet powerful imagery of its fallen namesake. Based on the fallen Egyptian statue, the poem presents a clear image of mortality evocative of Alexander Pope's famous quote, "Time conquers all, and we must time obey." With the current political state of the world, I believe that this is a message that our current world leaders would do well to consider, both established tyrants like Kim Jong Un and new elects such…

Bill Watterson-Calvin and Hobbes, Sabbatical, and Commercialization When starting off writing Calvin and Hobbes, Bill was advised not to quit his day job as a large number of comic strips never make it past a few years. The income for a beginner cartoonist wasn’t high paying but neither was his day job so as soon as he was making equal amounts from both jobs he went against the advice of the editor of the syndicate and quit his day job. The editors turned down many of his rough ideas but he…

Percy Shelly the author of the sonnet Ozymandias, is an infamous poet known for his many politically radical poems denunciating institutional religion, aristocracy, and monarchy. The poem Ozymandias can be said to be one of Shelly’ most famous and most anthologized oeuvres. This poem has, and continues to make great scholars and all who reads it question its true meanings and Shelly’s intentions. Shelly did not only write this poem so that the readers would see its irony in that the only thing…

Erin Allbritton Professor Andrea Beaky ART119 3 March 2015 Mary Cassatt was artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 22, 1944. She was known to be a famous artist, painter, and a printmaker. As she grew up, she learned to experience art in many different ways. When Mary turned 16, she wanted to be an artist and she wanted to make a lifetime career out of it. In order to become an artist, she attended Philadelphia’s own Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. As her career as an artist…

“The Eve of St. Agnes”by John Keats and “Sonnets from the Portuguese” by Emily Elizabeth Browning have a few differing ideas about love. “The Eve of St. Agnes” by Keats was written in the Romanticism period. In the Romanticism period love was very private. None of the love between Porphyro and Madeline was seen in public. Once the two officially were together they moved away to a mysterious elfin wood. Also in the Romanticism period there was rarely any respect for one’s partner. On at least two…

19th-century British Literature & Art Gao Jin Liu Yanchun (2013012734) February 29th, 2016 Soul in Two “The Chimney Sweeper”: From Fake Unity to Isolated Selfhood William Blake is renowned for his original mythmaking. He constructs the prophetic vision of the primal “Universal Man” falling from the divine unity that fuses inclusively man, nature and god together into the “Division” and “Selfhood” of detached individuals (Norton, 78). After the fall the world undergoes three lower phases:…