Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Colleen, Tyler, Emily and Maddie

Early Life and Education

• Born August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England

• Eton College-1804

• Oxford-1810 – Expelled

Love Life

• Younger women

• Harriet Westbrook

• Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin– Ireland

Norms of marriage

• Boy meets girl

• Marriage

• Women's rights

•Popularity•Woman’s rights•Men main control •Cheating

Heart Break

• Harriet dies– “Lost custody of children”

• Married Marry– Italy

• Children death and birth

Society

•Wrote about ideas that society didn’t discuss

-Religion -Politics-Issues in England -Strong opinions

Autumn: A DirgeThe warm sun is falling, the bleak wind is wailing,

The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year

On the earth is her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.

Come, Months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array;

Follow the bier Of the dead cold Year,

And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre.

The chill rain is falling, the nipped worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling

For the Year; The blithe swallows are flown, and the lizards each gone

To his dwelling. Come, Months, come away; Put on white, black and gray;

Let your light sisters play-- Ye, follow the bier

Of the dead cold Year, And make her grave green with tear on tear.

Autumn: A Dirge

OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear -- "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

Ozymandias

Definitely a Unique Character

• Poems about unpopular ideas• Unique life• Romanticism

– Change– Political – Nature– Love– Religion– Separate from society

•Just remember……….. Percy B. Shelley was……..

A Poet

Romantic Poet

Selfish

Rebellious

And wrote about different, strong

opinionated topics

= Romanticism

Work Cited

Information:

• "Percy Bysshe Shelley." Poets. Ed. Robin Beth Schaer. 1997. Academy of American Poets. 09 Mar. 2009 <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/179>.

• Everett, Glenn. "Shelley Biography." Http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/shelley/bio.html. July 2000. University of Tennessee at Martin. 9 Mar. 2009 <http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/shelley/bio.html>.

• Simkin, John. "Spartacus Educational." Spartacus Educational. 1997. Electronic Telegraph. 11 Mar. 2009 <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/author.htm>.

• Wojtczak, Helena. "WOMEN'S STATUS IN MID 19TH-CENTURY ENGLAND." The Hastings Press. 11 Mar. 2009 <http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/history/19/overview.htm>.

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