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2. SHELLEY AS A LYRICAL POET
PRESENTED BY:
MOHSIN ALI

3. TRIBUTE TO SHELLEY

4. • ACCOURDING TO WILLIAM J. LONG THERE ARE THERE ARE THREE
TYPES OF PEOPLE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
 IMAGINARY DREAMER, THEY STUMBLE THROUGH A WORLD OF
REALITY WITHOUT NOTICING IT, AND ARE HAPPY WITH THEIR VISION,
LIKE BLAKE.
 REALISTIC ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE PRESENT WORLD A MORE
LIKE THE REAL ONE WHICH THEY SEE IN THEIR VISION, LIKE
LANGLAND AND WYCLIF.
Imaginary
Realistic
Visionary

5. • THE THIRD THAT APPEARS IN MANY FORMS AS,
• VISIONARY, ENTHUSIAST, RADICAL , ANARCHIST,
REVOLUTIONARY
• WHICH HAVE BEEN BUILT UP BY THE SLOW TOIL OF CENTURIES
SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO STAND IN THE WAY OF THEIR
DREAM.
• TO THE LATTER CLASS BELONGS SHELLEY, A MAN PERPETUALLY
AT WAR WITH THE PRESENT WORLD, A MARTYR AND EXILE.
• SIMPLY BECAUSE OF HIS INABILITY TO SYMPATHIZE WITH MEN
AND SOCIETY AS THEY ARE AND BECAUSE OF HIS OWN MISTAKEN
JUDGEMENT AS TO THE VALUE AND PURPOSE OF A VISION.

6. • SHELLEY IS A

7. INTRODUCTION
• P.B Shelley is one of the greatest
romantic poets of English poetry
• He was born on August 4, 1792 at
Field Place, near Harsham, Sussex.
• Shelley was the revolutionary
idealist, a prophet of hope and
faith.
• He was a visionary who dreamed of
the Golden age. Unlike Byron’s
genius which was destructive,
Shelley’s was constructive

8. • HE STARTED HIS EARLY EDUCATION AT HOME, AT THE AGE OF EIGHT OF
EIGHT HE JOINED BRENTFORD.
• BEING A LOVER OF LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE, HE COULD NOT LEARN FROM
HIS NEW SCHOOL.
• HE CALLED “HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE DULLEST MEN IN HIS ESTABLISHMENT”.
• SHELLEY IS DISSATISFIED WITH THE ORDINARY PROCESSES OF LEARNING, HIS
IDEAS ARE CLEAR IN HIS POEM, “ HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY”
WHILE YET A BOY I SOUGHT FOR GHOSTS, AND SPED
THROUGH MANY A LISTENING CHAMBER, CAVE AND RUIN,
AND STARLIGHT WOOD, WITH, FEARFUL STEPS PURSUING
HOPES OF HIGH TALK WITH THE DEPARTED DEAD

9. INTRODUCTION
• SHELLEY’S REPUTATION AS A POET LIES MAINLY IN HIS
LYRICAL POWER.
• HE IS IN FACT THE GREATEST LYRICAL POET OF ENGLAND.
• AS A POET OF NATURE, SHELLEY WAS INSPIRED BY THE
SPIRIT OF LOVE WHICH WAS NOT LIMITED TO MANKIND BUT
EXTENDED TO EVERY LIVING CREATURE, TO ANIMALS AND
FLOWER, TO ELEMENTS, TO THE WHOLE NATURE.
• HIS FINAL END CAME IN 1822 WHEN HE WAS ONLY THIRTY
YEARS OF AGE.
• HE WAS DROWNED WHILE SAILING IN A SMALL BOAT ARIEL
OFF THE ITALIAN COAST.

10. SHELLEY’S PERSONALITY
• SHELLEY WAS IRRESISTIBLY HANDSOME, LOVEABLE, AND INDEPENDENT
JUDGEMENT.
• WITH HIS LARGE BEAUTIFUL EYES, LONG BUSHY HAIR, DELICATE FEATURES AND
STRONG SLENDER FIGURE, HIS WHOLE APPEARANCE,
• “ BREATHED AN ANIMATION, A FIRE, AN ENTHUSIASM, A VIVID AND
PRETERNATURAL INTELLIGENCE”.
• HIS OWN PEOPLE ALWAYS COMPARED HIM WITH A DELICATE FLOWER, ELEGANT
AND SLENDER,
• “ A FLOWER KEPT FROM THE LIGHT OF THE DAY”
• “DROOPED LIKE A FLOWER IN THE BREEZE.”

11. MAJOR WORKS:• THE REVOLT OF ISLAM
• ADONAIS
• ODE TO WEST WIND
• THE DEFENCE OF POETRY
• QUEEN MAB
• MEN OF ENGLAND
• THE CLOUD
• THE SKYLARK
• ON DEATH
• ALASTOR
• JULIAN AND MADDALO (A CONVERSATION)
• THE CENCI
• HELLAS (A LYRICAL DRAMA)
• THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE

12. LYRIC AND LYRICISM:
• A LYRIC IS A FAIRLY SHORT POEM WHICH IS THE EXPRESSION OF STRONG FEELINGS
OF THOUGHTS OR PERCEPTION OF A SINGLE SPEAKER IN A MEDITATIVE MANNER.
• THE LYRICS WAS ORIGINALLY IN GREEK POETRY, THE KIND OF POEM WHICH WAS SET
TO THE LYRE.
• A LYRIC IS A SHORT POEM IN WHICH A SINGLE EMOTION, USUALLY PERSONAL, IS
EXPRESSED.
• EXAMPLES ARE THE LOVE SONGS OF BURNS, AND SHELLEY’S SHORTER POEMS.
RUSKIN DEFINES A LYRIC AS:
‘‘LYRIC POETRY IS THE EXPRESSION BY THE POET OF HIS OWN FEELINGS.’’
• THE DEFINITION SHOWS THAT LYRIC IS THE KING OF POETRY WITHIN WHICH GREAT
VARIETIES MAY EXIST.
• THE BALLAD, ODE, ELEGY AND SONNET ARE SPECIAL FORMS OF THE LYRICAL
POETRY.

13. LYRIC AND LYRICISM:
• A LYRIC MAY BE A SIMPLE OUTBURST OF SINCERE FEELINGS.
• IT MAY BE WRITTEN AS PART OF A PLAY OR LONGER POEM.
• FINALLY, IT MAY BE IN ANYONE OF NUMBER OF SPECIAL STANZA FORMS, SUCH
AS THE SONNET.
• LYRICISM IS THE DOMINANT QUALITY OF A LYRIC WHICH MEANS SPONTANEOUS
EXPRESSION OF PERSONAL FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS IN A FORM SUITABLE FOR
BEING SUNG.
• TO BE A LYRICAL POET, A MAN MUST BE AN INTROVERT, AN IDEALIST;
• HE SHOULD HAVE A MASTERY OVER WORDS AND METRES TO ACHIEVE A
MUSICAL EFFECT.

14. SHELLEY, A GREAT LYRICIST:
• SHELLEY IS INDEED ONE OF THE GREATEST LYRICAL POETS OF ENGLAND.
• SHELLEY LYRICS REFLECT UPON THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT OF ROMANTIC
POETRY.
• THE BEAUTY AND CHARM OF HIS LYRIC HAVE HARDLY BEEN SURPASSED BY ANY
ENGLISH POET.
• “ODE TO THE WESTWIND”, “TO A SKYLARK”, “TO NIGHT” AND A NUMBER OF
OTHER LYRICS OF SHELLEY ARE THE TREASURE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

15. SHELLEY, A GREAT LYRICIST:
• SHELLEY WAS HIGHLY SENSITIVE AND IMAGINATIVE, ESPECIALLY RESPONSIVE TO
LYRICAL IMPULSES. HIS POETIC GENIUS WAS LYRICAL.
• MILTON, WORDSWORTH, KEATS WERE LYRICAL TOO, BUT SHELLEY’S LYRICAL
FACULTY WAS PARAMOUNT.
• HIS LYRICS ARE PERSONAL AS WELL AS IMPERSONAL.
• HE DEALS WITH LOVE, NATURE, FUTURE LIFE, REGENERATION OF MANKIND, ETC.
• HIS TECHNIQUE IS LIVELY AND FRESH AND HE REVELS IN IT.
• THE PERFECTION LIES IN THE FUSION OF IMAGERY AND RHYTHM IN A DICTION.

16. SHELLEY, A GREAT LYRICIST:
• HIS LYRICISM INCOMPARABLE. CAZAMIAN DETECTS:
“SHELLEY’S LYRICISM IS INCOMPARABLE. IN NO OTHER, DO WE FIND
THE PERFECT SURENESS, THE TRIUMPHANT RAPIDITY OF THIS UPWARD
FLIGHT, THIS SOARING HEIGHT, THE SUPER TERRESTRIAL QUALITY AS
WELL AS POIGNANT INTENSITY OF THE SOUNDS WHICH FALL FROM
THESE AERIAL REGIONS. TRULY, NEVER WAS THE SOUL OF A POET SO
SPONTANEOUSLY LYRICAL”.
•
• WE FIND A GREAT INTENSITY OF FEELING IN HIS LYRICAL POEM.
• OTHER PROMINENT FEATURES OF HIS LYRICS ARE SPONTANEITY OF
EXPRESSION, MUSICALITY OF VERSE, DEEP MELANCHOLY AND
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS.
• CLARK SAYS THAT:
“IN THE LYRICS SHELLEY IS MOST SURELY HIMSELF, STRIKING

17. VARIETY OF LYRICS
• GENERALLY SPEAKING SHELLEY’S LYRICS CAN BE CLASSIFIED UNDER FOUR MAIN
HEADS,
PERSONAL LYRICS
LYRICS OF NATURE
LYRICS OF HOPE
LYRICS OF LIBERTY
• LOVE, FREEDOM AND NATURE ARE THE MAIN THEME OF SHELLEY'S POETRY.

18. PERSONAL LYRICS
• SHELLEY’S PERSONAL LYRICS ARE IDEALISTIC IN CHARACTER. HIS IDEALS ARE
MANY, SOMETIMES WE FIND HIM IN PURSUIT OF DEATH, SOMETIMES IN PURSUIT
OF LOVE AND SOMETIMES IN PURSUIT OF A NEW MILLENNIUM THAT HE WOULD
LIKE TO BRING BRING ABOUT IN THIS WORLD.
THE DESIRE OF THE MOTH FOR THE STAR
OF THE NIGHT FOR THE MORROW
THE DEVOTION TO SOMETHING AFAR
FROM THE SPHERE OF OUR SORROW

19. LYRICS OF NATURE
• SHELLEY’S IMPASSIONED TREATMENT OF NATURE IN HIS SHORT POEMS VARIED
ACCORDING TO THE MOOD HE WAS IN.
• SOMETIMES HE SAW HER AS ONE AND INDIVISIBLE, AS A SPIRITUAL BEING WHO
THROUGH ALL HER FORMS, WHILE SHE REMAINED INCONVINCIBLE LOVE AND
UNITY.
• HE ALSO TREATS THE NATURAL OBJECTS AS SYMBOLS FOR EMOTIONS.
• ACCORDING TO GRAHAM HOUGH,
“THE PROCESS IN MUCH OF SHELLEY'S LYRIC POETRY IS TO FIND IN NATURAL
OBJECTS A SYMBOL FOR HIS OWN NATURAL EMOTIONAL PATTERN”

20. LIFE OF LIFE ! THY LIPS ENKINDLE
WITH THEIR LOVE THE BREATH BETWEEN THEM.
• SHELLEY’S TREATMENT OF NATURE HAS BEEN SEVERELY CRITICIZED BY VARIOUS
CRITICS.
• IT IS SAID BY SOME THAT SHELLEY ETHEREALIZES NATURE, MAKING IT VAGUE,
INDEFINITE AND NEBULOUS.
• IN THE HYMN OF INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY, HE SAYS
SPIRIT OF BEAUTY, THAT DOST CONSECRATE
WITH THINE OWN HUES ALL THOU DOST SHINE UPON
OF HUMAN THOUGHT OR ‘FORM

21. LYRICS OF LOVE.
• SHELLEY WAS A POET OF LOVE AS KEATS WAS A POET OF BEAUTY.
• HIS WHOLE LIFE WAS, AS IT WERE, A LIFE DEDICATED TO THE QUEST OF LOVE.
• HE WAS SO MUCH LOVE-LORN THAT IN ONE OF HIS POEMS HE COMPLAINED.
O LOVE ! WHO BEWAILEST
THE FRAILTY OF ALL THINGS HERE,
WHY CHOSOE YOU THE FRAILEST
FOR YOU CRADLE, YOUR HOME, AND YOUR BEIR.

22. SHELLEY’S ECSTATIC TREATMENT:
• SHELLEY FEELS AND EXPRESSES JOYFUL EXCITEMENT IN HIS POEMS.
• IN HIS LYRICAL POEMS SHELLEY REVEALS THE MOST STRIKING CHARACTERISTICS OF
HIS POETRY. HIS LYRICS FLOW IN STRAINS OF ECSTASY, HAVING GLORIOUS MELODY.
COMPTON RICKETT SAYS:
“SHELLEY EXHALED VERSE AS A FLOWER EXHALES FRAGRANCE AND
JUST AS THE FRAGRANCE OF A BLOSSOM VARIES IN QUALITY AND POWER
SO DID SHELLEY’S VERSE VARY IN POETIC MERIT”
• EMOTIONAL ECSTASY, SPONTANEITY OF EXPRESSION, MUSICAL QUALITY,
MELANCHOLY AND SIMPLICITY ALL MAKE HIS POETRY VERY APPEALING.

23. SHELLEY’S SHORTER LYRICS:
• THE MOST WELL-KNOWN SHELLEY’S SHORTER LYRICS ARE:
• “TO A SKYLARK”,
• “THE CLOUD”,
• “THE FLIGHT OF LOVE”,
• “THE INDIAN SERENADE”,
• “MUSIC WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE” ETC.

24. HIS FAMOUS LONGER LYRICS ARE:
• ODE TO THE WEST WIND,
• HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY,
• LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS ETC.
• ALL OF SHELLEY’S LYRICS WHETHER THEY ARE SHORT OR LONG HAVE
SPONTANEITY OF EXPRESSION, INTENSITY OF FEELING AND GREAT MUSIC.
PROFESSOR OLIVER ELTON SAYS THAT
“ALL HIS POETRY IS LYRICAL, FOR HIS LYRICAL IMPULSE PENETRATES
INTO HIS EVEN UN-LYRICAL VERSE”.

25. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS:
• ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SHELLEY’S LYRICS IS THE USE OF
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS.
• SHELLEY’S LYRICS PORTRAY ONE CHARACTER AND THAT IS THE POET HIMSELF.
• ALMOST ALL POEMS OF SHELLEY MENTION HIS OWN LIFE.
JUST MARK “ODE TO WEST WIND”:
OH, LIFT ME AS A WAVE, A LEAF, A CLOUD!
I FALL UPON THE THORNS OF LIFE! I BLEED!

26. INTENSITY OF FEELING:
• IN SHELLEY’S LYRICS WE FIND GREAT INTENSITY OF FEELING AND DEEP EMOTIONS. SHELLEY IS
NOT ONLY SPONTANEOUS, HE IS ALSO VERY PASSIONATE AND WHEN HE FEELS INTENSE
FEELINGS HE OFTEN FORGETS HIMSELF COMPLETELY.
THIS INTENSITY OF FEELING CAN BE SEEN IN “TO A SKYLARK”, “THE CLOUD” AND IN THE “WEST
WIND”.
HE WRITES IN HIS SKYLARK:
WE LOOK BEFORE AND AFTER,
AND PINE FOR WHAT IS NOT:
OUR SINCEREST LAUGHTER WITH SOME PAIN IS FRAUGHT:
OUR SWEETEST SONGS ARE THOSE THAT TELL OF SADDEST THOUGHT.

27. MUSICALITY:
• MUSIC IN HIS VERSE ALSO MAKES HIS POETRY VERY DELIGHTFUL. HE SEEMS TO BE
REALLY CONSCIOUS ABOUT THE MUSIC IN HIS POETRY.
• THE MUSIC OF HIS VERSE IS REALLY WONDERFUL AND IT REALLY APPEALS TO OUR
SENSES.
• THE MUSIC IN HIS POETRY IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE MUSIC OF NATURE.
A.C SWINBURNE SAYS THAT:
“HE WAS ALONE THE PERFECT SINGING GOD.
HIS THOUGHTS, WORDS, DEEDS, ALL SANG TOGETHER’’

28. MUSICALITY:
• SHELLEY’S LYRICS ARE SURPASSINGLY MUSICAL AND SWEET.
• IT IS BELIEVED THAT, HIS LYRICS ARE CRIES OF PAIN, BUT THESE CRIES ARE
BEAUTIFULLY TRANSFORMED INTO LOVELINESS BY SWEET MUSIC.
• EVEN HIS MOST PESSIMISTIC LYRICS PRODUCE A SENSE OF DELIGHT.
• IT IS THE SADNESS OF THESE LYRICS WHICH MAKES THEM MELODIOUS.
• ‘TO NIGHT’, ‘ODE TO THE WEST WIND’, ETC. ARE MASTERPIECES OF MUSICAL
LYRICISM.
• THE RHYMES OF HIS GREAT LYRICS ARE UNIQUE AND MUSIC IS PERFECT.

29. MUSICALITY:
• MOREOVER, EMOTION COMES TO HIM, AS IT WERE, IN A RHYTHMICAL HARMONY:
• SHELLEY POINT OUTS IN HIS POEM “SLEPT”
‘‘ON A POET’S LIPS I SLEPT
DREAMING LIKE A LOVE-ADEPT
IN THE SOUND HIS BREATHING KEPT;
NOR SEEKS NOR FINDS HE MORTAL BLISSES,
BUT FEEDS ON THE AERIAL KISSES
OF SHAPES THAT HAUNT THOUGHT’S WILDERNESSES.

30. SPONTANEITY:
• SPONTANEITY IS ONE OF THE REMARKABLE FEATURES OF SHELLEY’S LYRICAL
POETRY.
HIS LYRICS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN WITHOUT THE LEAST EFFORT, ARISING
DIRECTLY FROM HIS HEART.
TO MORGAN:
‘‘HIS LYRICS BURST FROM THE NATURE, THE SUNSHINE, THE AIR’’

31. SPONTANEITY:
• NOTHING CAN BE MORE SPONTANEOUS THAN THE FOLLOWING LINES, ADDRESSED
TO SKYLARK.
BETTER THAN ALL MEASURES
OF DELIGHTFUL SOUND,
BETTER THAN ALL TREASURES
THAT IN BOOKS ARE FOUND,
THY SKILL TO POETS WERE, THOU SCORNER OF GROUND!
• IN “ADONAIS”, HE CALLS HIMSELF ‘A DYING LAMP’, ‘A FALLING SHOWER’, ‘A
BREAKING BILLOW’ WHICH INDICATES THE SPONTANEITY OF FEELINGS.

32. DEEP MELANCHOLY:
• IN HIS LYRICS WE OFTEN FIND SHELLEY TO BE REALLY SAD AND WE FEEL THAT
HE IS HOPELESS.
• MELANCHOLY IS ALSO ONE OF THE NOTABLE QUALITIES OF HIS POETRY.
• SHELLEY LOOKS VERY PESSIMISTIC AND THE ONE WHO HAS TOTALLY LOST
HIS HOPE.
• HE EXPRESSES HIS SAD THOUGHT IN HIS POEMS AND WE FEEL HIS PAIN.
• ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR HERFORD:
“THE GREATEST OF THESE LYRICS ‘ODE TO THE WEST WIND’ COMBINES WITH
THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF IMAGINATIVE QUALITY. THE TWO OTHER
CHARACTERISTIC NOTES OF SHELLEY’S LYRICS- PERSONAL DESPONDENCY AND
PROPHETIC PASSION”

33. DEEP MELANCHOLY:
• SOMETIMES, HE IS JUST MELANCHOLIC. HE DISCLOSES HIS HIDDEN MISERIES,
DISTRACTIONS, SUFFERINGS, TORTURES IN A VERY PAINFUL MANNER.
• WHILE EXPRESSING HIS SORROW, SHELLEY IN HIS JULIAN AND MADDALO WRITES:
MOST WRETCHED MEN
ARE CRADLED INTO POETRY BY WRONG.
THEY LEARN IN SUFFERING WHAT THEY TEACH IN SONG.

34. DEEP MELANCHOLY:
• A NOTE OF SADNESS RUNS THROUGH MOST OF HIS LYRICS.
• HIS BEST LYRICS ARE CRIES OF PAIN AND ANGUISH.
• HE APPEARS TO BE CRYING LIKE ‘A TIRED CHILD’, WEEPING AWAY HIS LIFE. ‘OUR SWEETEST SONGS’,
TO HIM, ‘ARE THOSE THAT TELL OF SADDEST THOUGHT’.
• DESPAIR IS ONE OF THE KEYNOTES OF HIS LYRICAL POETRY.
• HE IS ALWAYS LONGING AND CRAVING FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE.
• THERE IS LITTLE PEACE IN HIS LYRICS. ‘TO NIGHT’ REFLECTS HIS CRAVE AND LONGING AND SIGH
FOR THE NIGHT.
• THIS LONGING CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN THE ‘SONG’, IN WHICH HE CALLS IT THE ‘SPIRIT OF DELIGHT’.

35. SIMPLICITY:
• SHELLEY’S LYRICS ARE ABSOLUTELY SIMPLE, SMOOTH AND FLUENT. THIS NOTE
OF SIMPLICITY ADDS TO THEIR BEAUTY.
• HOW SIMPLE HE IS IN THE FOLLOWING LINES, TAKEN FROM “ODE TO THE
WESTWIND”:
“THE TRUMPET OF A PROPHECY! O, WIND,
IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND?”

36. EMBELLISHED COMPOSITIONS:
• SHELLEY’S LYRICS ARE HIGHLY EMBELLISHED COMPOSITIONS. THEY ABOUND IN
ORNAMENTAL IMAGERY.
• ‘THE CLOUD’, AND ‘TO A SKYLARK’ ARE THE MOST STRIKING EXAMPLES.
• HE PAINTS A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF THE MOON, CALLING IT A ‘SILVER SPHERE’,
ITS RAYS ‘BEAM ARROWS’ AND ITS LIGHT, ‘INTENSE LAMP’.

37. EMBELLISHED COMPOSITIONS:
• WE FIND WONDERFUL SIMILES DECORATING HIS LYRICAL POETRY.
• HE COMPARES THE SKYLARK TO A ‘POET HIDDEN IN THE LIGHT OF THOUGHT’
AND MOON TO AN ‘ORBED MAIDEN WITH WHITE FIRE LADEN’.
• SHELLEY’S LYRICAL POETRY HAS A PROPHETIC NOTE SOAKED WITH HUMANISM.
IN ‘ODE TO THE WESTWIND’ HE GIVES A MEMORABLE MESSAGE OF HOPE TO
HUMANITY;
‘IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND?

38. CRITICS’ OPINION:
• MANY CRITICS (LIKE, MARRIS, HAZLITT, CARLYLE, ARNOLD, LUCAS, HOUGH AND ELIOT) HAVE
CRITICIZED HIS LYRICAL POETRY BUT WE SHOULD ALSO KEEP THIS IN OUR MIND THAT
GREATNESS OF A POET IS NOT ESTIMATED BY HIS FAILURES BUT BY HIS SUCCESS AND
ACHIEVEMENTS.
• THOUGH SOME CRITICS ACCUSE SHELLEY OF INEFFECTUALITY DUE TO HIS ETHEREALITY AND
ABSTRACTNESS, YET MOST OF THE CRITICS ARE ALL PRAISE FOR HIM ON ACCOUNT OF HIS
LYRICISM. SAINTBURY RANKS SHELLEY AS
‘ONE OF THE TWO OR THREE MAJOR LYRICAL POETS IN THE ENGLISH TRADITION’.
ACCORDING TO MORGAN:
‘‘THERE IS NO POET, NOT EVEN SHAKESPEARE IN HIS LYRICS, WHO HAS SHELLEY’S EFFECT
OF BIRD-SONG POURING AND POURING OUT’’

39. CONCLUSION:
• SHELLEY’S LYRICS HAVE A LOT OF QUALITIES THAT MAKE HIS POETRY UNIQUE
AND EXTREMELY GOOD.
• SHELLEY HAD A GREAT UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN LIFE.
• HIS LYRICS SHOW HIS LOVE OF FREEDOM AND HUMANITY, HIS HATE TOWARDS
ALL KINDS OF CRUELTIES AND HIS DEEP FAITH IN THE GOLDEN AGE THAT IS
BEFORE AND BEHIND US.
• SHELLEY WAS A REMARKABLE LYRICAL POET. ‘THE CLOUD’, ‘TO A SKYLARK’,
AND ‘ODE TO THE WESTWIND’ AS LYRICAL POEMS ARE STILL UNSURPASSED AND
ALMOST UNCHALLENGED.

40. Thank You