Romantic Poet

1. Department of English, MKUB
Prepared by Khushi Rathod
Shelley’s Role as a Poet in
the Romantic Era

2. Personal Information
Name :- Khushi R. Rathod
Roll No :-25
Enrollment No :- 5108230039
Semester :-1
Paper No :- 103
Paper Code :- 223924
Paper Name :- Literature of the Romantics
Topic :- Shelley’s Role as a Poet in the Romantic Era
Submitted to :-Smt.S.B.Gardi,Department of English,MKBU
E-mail :-khushirathod1863@gmail.com

3. Table of Contents
1
Introduction
2
About the
P.B.Shelley
4
Conclusion
3
P.B.Shelley as a
Romantic Poet

4. Introduction :-
● Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era.
● Romantic era started end of the 18th century.
● Romantic poetry contrasts with Neoclassical poetry.
● Romantic poetry is product of emotions, sentiment and the
heart.
● The best known romantic poets are William Blake, S.T.
Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats and P.B.
Shelley.

5. P. B. Shelley
(1792 - 1822)
Full Name :- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Born :- 4 August, 1792, England
Died :- 8 July, 1822, Italy
Occupation :- Poet, Essayist, Dramatist
Literary Period :- Romantic
Genre :- Romantic Poetry

6. ● Early life: Born in Sussex, England, to a wealthy family. Educated
at Eton and Oxford.
● Publications: Began writing poetry while at Eton. First publication
was the Gothic novel Zastrozzi (1810). Other notable works include
Queen Mab (1813), Alastor (1815), Laon and Cythna (1817),
Prometheus Unbound (1820), and Ode to the West Wind (1820).
● Personal life: Married Harriet Westbrook in 1811. Eloped with
Mary Godwin in 1814. Harriet committed suicide in 1816. Shelley
and Mary married in 1816.
● Death: Drowned in a storm in the Mediterranean Sea in 1822.

7. Poems :-
Ozymandias
(Published :- 1818)
To a Skylark
( Published :- 1820)
Ode to the west wind
( Published :- 1820)

8. Adonais
( Published :- 1821)
To The Moon
( Published :- 1824)
One word is too often profaned
( Published :- 1824)

9. As a Romantic Poet :-
● P.B.Shelley as a Romantic Poet.
● Some major elements found in the poetry of Shelley are
:-
1. Love of Nature
2. Imagination
3. Melancholy
4. Supernaturalism
5. Beauty
6. Idealism

10. 1. Love of Nature :-
● Nature is a living spirit, the Supreme Power.
● Nature is beautiful and sublime.
● Nature is a source of inspiration and comfort.
● Shelley personifies nature, giving it
human-like qualities.
● Shelley believed in the therapeutic power of
nature.
● The majority of his poems, including The
Cloud, To a Skylark, To the Moon, Ode to the
West Wind, and A Dream of the Unknown,
glorify nature as their central theme.

11. 2. Imagination :-
● Poetry is the manifestation of imagination.
● Poetry brings disparate elements together
harmoniously.
● Poetry is not about facts or analysis, but about
creating images that make reality known to the
outside world.
● Shelley believed in the power of imagination to
dream up new possibilities and to create a better
world.
● According to Shelley; we don’t wish to know facts in
poetry, history, people’s personal lives, satire, or
panegyric.

12. 3. Melancholy :-
● Romantics found melancholy a key source of inspiration because it allowed them
to explore the depths of human emotion and experience.
● Shelley, despite his optimism, was not immune to melancholy, and he often
portrays himself in his poems as a victim of evil and pain.
● He expresses this in his Ode to the West Wind:
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud.
I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bound
One too like thee.

13. 4. Supernaturalism :-
● Supernatural themes are common in Romantic
poetry, and Shelley's work is no exception.
● His poems use ghosts and spirits to suggest the
possibility of a world beyond our own.
● However, the speaker of "Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty" finds no ghosts, and the ghosts in
"Mont Blanc" are not real.
● This suggests that supernatural powers are
elusive and mysterious.

14. 5. Beauty :-
● Another Romantic element in Shelley’s poetry is beauty.
● For Shelley, what he refers to as “Intellectual Beauty” is beauty as
an ideal and a smaller version of the beauty of nature.
● He venerates beauty as an enigmatic force.
● When intellectual beauty is away, the universe becomes a “dim
huge vale of tears, vacant and forlorn,” and if the human heart is its
temple, then man would become immortal and omniscient,
according to the spiritual arts.

15. 6. Idealism :-
● Idealism is a prominent characteristic, particularly in
second generation Romantic poets.
● There are three categories that describe Shelley’s
idealism.
1) Revolutionary Idealism
2) Religious Idealism
3) Erotic Idealism

16. Conclusion :-
Shelley is considered the best Romantic Poet of his age because of
his unique expression of joy,magnanimity,faith in humanity and
optimism. He was also a quick learner with a brilliant intellect and
his premature death cemented his status as an iconic tragic Romantic
artist.

17. Reference :-
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“P.B Shelley As A Romantic Poet.” Literature Times, 27 July 2022,
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Shelley, Ananya Bose. “Shelley As A Romantic Poet | PDF | Romanticism | Poetry.” Scribd,
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