英美文学Percy Bysshe Shelley.pptVIP

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) If Byron exposed the evil of the world, Shelley showed the idealism of Romanticism. In his Prometheus Unbound , Queen Mab and Revolt of Islam he depicts an ideal world without tyranny and cruelty. In his lyrics on nature and love, there is true spirit of freedom and an exquisite beauty (Ode to the West Wind To a Skylark). Ode to the West Wind Image of the west wind: forceful , constructive as well as destructive; image of progressive force, free spirit, inspiration Themes: A call for a revolution or the creation of a new world, love of nature, of freedom or independence Ode to the West Wind: Formal features  ode: a genre ,a long lyric poem,serious and dignified in subject,tone and style,sometimes with elaborate stanzaic structure, often written to celebrate an event or in individual. terza rima stanza: consists of 14 lines subdivided into 4 3-line units or tercets rhyming aba bcb cdc ded and a closing couplet rhyming ee. enjambment or run-on lines Additional work: Ozymandias(optional ) 1 Themes This poem echoes Samuel Johnson’s poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes ” and Guiterman’s “On Vanity of Earthly Greatness”; folly of human efforts to conquer time The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls Of mastodons, are billiard balls. The sword of Charlemagne the Just Is Ferric Oxide(三氧化二铁), known as rust. The grizzly bear, whose potent hug, Was feared by all, is now a rug. Great Caesars bust is on the shelf, And I dont feel so well myself. -- Arthur Guiterman Ozymandias(2) 2 structure indirect narration emphasizes remoteness in time and space: Ozymandias’s words were dictated to the sculptor, then carved in stone, then read by a traveler, then told to the first person speaker, then related to us Ozymandias(3) 3 use of ironies 1) verbal irony: saying the opposite of what is meant 2)dramatic irony: a device by which the audience is made aware of things that certain characters do not know. 3)situation