Percy bysshe shelley

BIOGRAFY

• August 4th 1792 in Sussex;

works

• 1817 "The Revolt of Islam";
• 1819 "Ode to the west wind "and "The ceci " ;

The poet

• Second romantic generation of poets;
• Men could overcome the political, moral and social constraints only through love.

The poetry

• He considered the poetry an useful message that he used as a weapon for destroying social conventions, customs and so on, to free mankind.

the immagination

• He was forced to escape for finding a refuge where he cloud isolate himself from the rest of the world.

the task

• The main feautures are freedom, beauty and love
• He makes a reference to the platonic world;
• Save the umanity.

the nature

• Rapresents the better refuge from the injustice of the real world;
• Rapresents the interlocutor of his melancholy dreams and his hopes for a better future.

the structure

• October 20th 1819;
• Written to celebrate the majesty and the power of the west wind;
• Can be divided in fifth part.

Untitled Slide

the first part

• Describes the effects of the wind on earth;
• Begins introducing the personified wind as the autumn‘s breathe;
• wind presence abstract;
• metaphor : compering the dead leaves un corposes, but unlkike this, they are recalled to life thanks to the spring, considered sister of autumn.

the second part

• The Poet describes a dark sky that preannounces a storm;
• the poet is a great classicist;

the tirdh part

• the poet describes the effect of the wind on the mediterranean sea, and on the atlantic ocean;

the fourth part

the fifth part

• the poet continues his prayer;
• the poet finally concludes, making himself the spokesman of a prophecy.

Ode to the west wind

The End.