Romantic poet

P. B. Shelley's Ode to the West Wind and Prometheus Unbound

1. Romanticism poets P. B.Shelley Janvi Nakum Roll no:15

2. P.B.Shelley life Percy Bysshe Shelley was born 4 august 1792. He was one of the major English Romantic poets. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as “ a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem”.

3. Shelley’s works Major Poems The Cloud To a skylark Ode to the west wind To Night Ozymandias Queen Mab Hellas The witch of Atlas

4. Other major works The political ballad The mask of Anarchy(1819) The verse Drama The Cenci (1819) Long poems Alastor ,or The Spirit of solitude (1815) Julian and maddalo (1819) Adonais (1821) Prometheus Unbound (1820)

5. Ode to the west wind “ode to the west wind ” poem was written in the woods outside Florence, Italy in the autumn of 1819. In the poem , the speaker directly addressed the wind wind. The Speaker treats the west wind as a force of death and decay, and welcomes this death and decay because it means that rejuvenation and rebirth will come soon.

6. In the final two sections of the poem, the speaker suggests that he wants to help promote this rebirth through his own poetry and that rejuvenation he hopes to see is boat political and poetic: a rebirth of social and its ways of writing.

7. Theme and symbols of the poem Major theme in “ode to the west wind” :Power, human limitations and natural world are the major themes of this poem. The poet adores the power and grandeur of the west wind, and also wishes that revolutionary ideas could reach every corner of the universe. The west has became a symbol of the spirit, it represents the spirits of breaking the old world and the pursuit of the new order. The west wind is not only the wind in nature, but also embodies the revolutionary storm, which represents the irresistibly force of the spirit.

8. Prometheus Unbound Prometheus Unbound is a four-act lyrical drama by P.B.Shelley, first published in 1820. It is concerned with torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus, who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity, for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus.

9. Shelley best work Prometheus lyrical drama, revolutionary enthusiasm, and characteristic of all his poems. Shelley’s philosophy was a curious aftergrowth of the French state, church, and society man from growth into perfect happiness. In Shelley’s poem the hero, Prometheus, represent mankind itself,- a just and noble humanity, chained and tortured by Jove, who is here the personification of human institutions .Jove and Prometheus, who is presently united to Asia, the spirit of love and goodness in nature, while the earth and the moon join in a wedding song, and everything gives promise that they shell live together happy ever afterwards.

10. Characters Prometheus Zeus Hermes Lo Oceanids Oceanus Hephaestus Kratus Bia

11. Themes Knowledge and Freedom Authority and Resistance Christianity and Forgiveness Nature, imagination, and the Sublime

12. Symbols Fire symbolize knowledge in Prometheus “tamed Fire” for humanity After Jupiter misused his power as ruler and failed to share the knowledge. The Hours represent the passage of time as humans experience. The spirit of Love represents the most powerful force in the universe, to which all beings are “subject”. The personification of love as the highest being in the universe supports Shelley's messages in Prometheus Unbound.

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