shelly as a poet of nature

 

shelly as a poet of nature

Shelley as a poet of Nature

Percy Bysshe Shelley was an outstanding English Romantic poet. He is one of the most well-known and dominant poets of the nineteenth century.

Shelley adores nature and finds joy in its presence, allowing him to forget about his sorrows and emotions of loneliness.

One of his poems' main themes is his love for nature. Nature imagery abounds in his poetry. Colorful nature pictures and adoration of nature are reflected in 'On Love.' In this poem, he demonstrates fruition and completion. Other poems, such as 'The Cloud,' 'To A Skylark,' 'To the Moon,' and so on, are exceptional nature poetry with a plethora of nature visuals. One example is the glistening and beauty of the sunrise in the 'Euganean Hills.' In 'To the Moon,' he describes the moon as a ‘silver sphere,' with its light described as a 'Infuse lamp,' and its rays as 'been arrows.'

Shelly feels that nature has a therapeutic effect on a person's personality. He finds refuge and comfort in nature in 'Euganean Hills' and 'The Recollection,' and feels its soothing influence on his heart. Shelley, too, appears as a pantheist in his poems. In truth, his attitude toward nature is similar to that of Wordsworth, who affected Shelley significantly as the greatest nature mystic, his forerunner, and the originator of the Romantic Revival.

Nature, according to Shelley, is a partner who has the potential to relieve human beings of their suffering. Shelley's personal experience influenced his vision of nature. Whenever he is depressed, he goes to Nature for comfort and is successful. He tries to find joy in the gorgeous Italian surroundings even on the toughest days of his life in Italy. Shelley demonstrates a spiritual involvement with Nature in Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills. Nature provides him with an endless supply of wonderful images. To him, the sun is not just a natural phenomenon, but something,

“broad, red, …… line of the waters crystalline.”

For the time being, the Euganean Hills' beautiful splendor soothes his grief and fills him with a brilliant optimism fueled by his meditations on the so-called Isles of Delight.

Many a green isle …..on his dreary way.’’

While Wordsworth enjoys the peaceful and motionless features of nature, Shelley is enthralled by the dynamic. He himself has admitted:

“I take great delight...…of the atmosphere.”

This explains his love of the sky and his production of sky-lyrics like Ode to the West Wind, The Cloud, and To A Skylark. The West Wind is constantly moving, carrying out its duties on land, sky, and in the sea. Both the cloud and the skylark show signs of discontent.

‘’Ah, Woe is me! Winter … the swallows reappear.’’

During his youth, Shelley was a passionate scientific student. As a result, the majority of his portrayals of Nature are based on popular science at the time. The Cloud is the most complete representation of Shelley's scientific knowledge. The poem has the appearance of being written by a meteorologist.

His lines:

“Sublime … Lightning my pilot sits-”

clearly shows his knowledge of the relationship between clouds and electricity.

As a result, we might conclude that, in Shelley's opinion, nature is both beautiful and terrible, a dynamic force that cannot be tamed by man. His poems_ which are among the best in the English language_ reflect his impassioned yearning for personal love and social justice.