Percy Bysshe Shelley literary Analysis
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Literary Works Analysis In this analysis of Percy Shelley’s work, I will discuss the many literary devices that romantic works possess and is incorporated throughout the literature. I will also discuss the important elements and themes in the literature of the Romantic Era that are essential to the pieces. I will be particularly discussing two plays, Prometheus Unbound, and the Cenci, Percy Shelley wrote in 1819 and 1820. Percy had a strange connection with nature, so in many of his works he used intricate imagery to describe some of the settings. In Prometheus Unbound preface, he describes the setting in India as mountainous ruins with winding labyrinths with flowery thickets walls, and blooming trees next to elaborate arches in the bright blue sky. He describes a dove wings as azure and orange fading into gold, and their smiles as a star’s fire lighting up the sky. He portrays the seasons as a variety of “rainbow-skirted showers... odorous winds... dew-mingled rain of the calm moonbeams... ever-living leaves and fruits and flowers”. Shelley continues these kinds of descriptions throughout the rest of the piece. Percy Shelley uses unique and diverse themes portraying some of his very radical beliefs. The main theme that reoccurs multiple times is the power of nature and the creative and destructive power it has over people (sparknotes.com). In Prometheus Unbound, Shelley describes how the existence of the mind in Nature produces emotion and thoughts provoking questions inquiring about how to modify objects of nature. Shelley also used political themes and oppressive monarchs to capture certain ideals of freedom, emotion and individuality (O’Connor). Shelley like many Romanticist wanted to reform the world through their pieces of literature. Shelley did not solely write to directly influence reform efforts but to refine the imagination of the poetic readers with excellence in morality. In the 19th century, Shelley was claimed