Shelley, a famous English romantic poet, is regarded as one of the best English poets in history. Next I bring Shelley and his classic quotations.

Shelley's Literary Features

Shelley wrote many excellent lyric poems, which reflected the author's democratic thought and fighting spirit. In Song for the British, he severely reprimanded the British ruling class, called them Xiong Feng, and pointed out that they were parasites who exploited the British people. The poet called on the people to take up arms to defend themselves: sow-but don't let tyrants search; Looking for wealth-don't let swindlers do it; Weave-don't knit cotton-padded clothes for lazy people; Forge weapons-protect yourself. Apart from Singing to the English, his political lyrics and The Tyranny of Masked Parade solemnly protested the bloody atrocities of the bourgeois government. The Spanish people launched a revolutionary movement against alien oppression and feudal autocracy, and Shelley presented an ode to the Spanish people. The poet encouraged the working people to know their own strength and get up to change their slave situation.

Shelley advocates nature, praises the beauty of nature and is good at describing natural phenomena to express his feelings. While describing the power and changes of nature, he endowed himself with the pursuit of light and freedom. Shelley is familiar with nature, and he personifies and deifies it. In Shelley's works, mountains, forests and birds that have been sleeping for thousands of years suddenly become full of vitality, as if they were people, and the "people" who stand up in these personalized nature symbolize the poet's personification of himself as the soul of nature. In art, Shelley completed a self-image dissolved in nature. Shelley said, "The poet is a nightingale. She lives in the dark and soothes her loneliness with beautiful songs." "Romantic Love" is full of images, such as mountain breeze, flowing water and birds ... and the image of a boat under the moon is often remembered by readers. For example, in To the Lark, the poet wrote: Hello! Happy spirit/you never seem to be a bird/from heaven or near heaven, pour out your heart with hearty music and uncut art.

"Percy, Bishop, Shelley, what the heart wants", this is Shelley's tombstone inscription for himself before his death. Inscription is also the general summary of Shelley's poems. His poetry is a typical spiritual social life. The fantasy of his works, the free way of describing nature, the wonderful metaphor and the musicality of language constitute the complex and changeable artistic style of Shelley's lyric poems.

A selection of Shelley's classic quotations

1) Poets of all ages are making contributions to an ever-developing "great poem".

2) Only life is destroyed, and there is no peace.

3) No law has the right to obstruct the practice of truth.

4) If you regret what you can do because you are cowardly, it will be even more cowardly.

5) Land, sea and sky are brothers.

6) Faith is an emotion, and the power of this emotion, just like other emotions, is directly proportional to the degree of excitement.

7) Power is like a spreading plague, which will catch up with anyone you meet.

8) Smart people are people who seriously consider their own interests; A wise man is a man who carefully considers the interests of others.

9) The more you learn, the poorer you feel.

10) If you cherish your feather very much and don't hurt it a little, then you will lose two wings and never fly in the air again.

The latest classic quotations from Shelley.

1) A person cannot have real wisdom without real morality.

2) If you are troubled, please treat it with hope; The greatest happiness of mankind is hope.

3) Winter has come, can spring be far behind?

4) Evil virtue-disharmony, war and suffering; Virtue-peace, happiness and harmony.

5) Although the established fate is bleak, change can only deepen his disaster.

6) People often think that small mistakes are harmless, but bigger failures are often caused by small mistakes.

7) The greatest secret in morality is love.

8) If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Love is like a lamp. If you shine on two people at the same time, the glory will not diminish.

10) Love is not a slave to time.

1 1) The more you read, the more empty you feel.

12) The more you read, the more you find yourself ignorant.

13) A smile is really a symbol of kindness, a source of happiness and a medium for getting close to others. With laughter, human feelings communicate.

14) industrious bees never have time to be sad.

15) Shallow water is noisy and deep water is silent.

Great poetry is like a fountain, always spouting water of wisdom and joy.

17) Poetry is the true image of life, expressed by eternal truth.

Kissing is when souls meet on the lips of lovers. Lips are the place where two lovers and two souls meet.

19) The greatest secret of morality is love; In other words, it is the beauty that transcends our own nature and dissolves in other people's thoughts, behaviors or personalities.

20) People have an emotional heart, a thinking brain and a talking tongue.

2 1) The most unfortunate people are trained as poets by suffering, and they teach others what they have learned from suffering through poetry.

22) The past belongs to death, and the future belongs to oneself.

23) There is no real wealth except human labor. Even if there are golden mountains and silver seas, there will be no grains in the world; Humans will not increase some happiness.

24) the majesty of princes is insignificant; Sages are great, modest and prudent.

25) Hunger and love rule the world.

26) If a person has no real morality, it is impossible to have real wisdom. Being smart and being smart are two completely different things. Smart people are people who carefully consider their own interests; A wise man is a man who carefully considers the interests of others.

27) Life, this great miracle, we are amazed because you are so wonderful. ...

28) Hope will make you young, because hope and youth are brothers.

29) Poetry is the supreme happiness, the supreme spirit and the record of supreme instant happiness.

30) People can't create opportunities, but they can seize those opportunities that have already appeared.

Notes on Shelley's Selected Poems

Let the horn of prophecy ring! Oh, west wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? -Shelley's ode to the west wind.

Percy bysshe shelley (1August 4th, 792-1July 8th, 822) is one of the most talented lyric poets in the history of English literature, and is regarded as a poet among poets. He has a wide range of knowledge all his life. He is not only a Platonist, but also a great idealist. The poems created are lively and positive. He and Byron, a famous poet, are recognized as two superstars in English poetry in the19th century. Their names are household names in Britain, known to all ages.

Shelley's definition of poetry is: "Poetry is the image of life expressed by eternal truth." He also said: "Poetry is the most beautiful moment and the most beautiful idea." "Unsolvable inspiration, the poet is the interpreter; The future reveals to the present that the poet is a mirror, reflecting its great image; The poet's poems are enough to express what the poet himself doesn't understand; The poet blew the horn of attack, which has an appeal that the poet himself does not understand; The poet's power is not controlled by others, but can control others. Poets are legislators of the world, although they do not have the title of legislators. "

At the age of eight, Shelley began to try to write poetry. During his time at Eton College, Shelley and his cousin Thomas co-wrote the poem The Wandering Jew and published the satirical novel Zastroch.

/kloc-When she was 0/2 years old, Shelley entered Eton College, where she was abused by her seniors and teachers. This phenomenon was very common in schools at that time, but Shelley didn't swallow it like ordinary freshmen. He openly resisted these, and this rebellious personality burned his short life like a fire.

18 10 years old, Shelley 18 years old entered Oxford university, deeply influenced by the works of British free thinkers Hume and godwin. Shelley habitually wrote his thoughts on God, politics and society in pamphlets and distributed them to some strangers. After reading them, he asked their opinions.

1811On March 25th, Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for spreading the inevitability of atheism. Shelley's father is an old-fashioned squire. He asked Shelley to publicly declare that he had nothing to do with the necessity of atheism, but Shelley refused, so he was kicked out of the house. Shelley was cut off from financial support and lived a lonely life with the help of two sisters. During this period, he met Harriet Westbrook, a classmate of his sister and the daughter of an innkeeper. Shelley has only met this 16-year-old girl several times. She's cute and pathetic. When Shelley saw her letter in Wales that she was abused by her father at home, she resolutely rushed back to London and eloped with the poor girl who admired him. He doesn't know her, but he thinks he should save her from the autocratic family. They got married in Edinburgh and lived in York after marriage. This marriage is doomed to be a tragedy. Shelley was more than just a poet. He is well-read, knowledgeable and loves philosophy, which is beyond Harriet's reach. Objectively speaking, Harriet in her girlhood was very naive. She also studied hard and tried to keep up with Shelley's pace, but later, like many women in literary classes, she gradually became more and more secular and shallow, and the gap with Shelley became wider and wider. Harriet's sister Eliza is a narrow-minded ordinary citizen. Harriet trusts her and is deeply influenced by her.

18 12 February 12 Shelley, who sympathized with Ireland's forced merger by Britain, took his wife to Dublin. In order to support the liberation of Irish Catholics, Shelley made an impassioned speech there, and distributed the letter and the proposal to set up a charity association to the Irish people. Driven by political enthusiasm, Shelley traveled all over Britain in the following year, distributing pamphlets of his free thoughts. In the same year, the narrative poem Queen Mabu was completed in June 5438 +065438+10. This poem is full of philosophy, attacking the hypocrisy of religion and all inequalities between the feudal class and the working class.

18 15, Shelley's grandfather died. Shelley, who was very poor at that time, got an annuity according to the eldest son inheritance law at that time, but he refused to share it with his sister. This year, besides Alaste, Shelley wrote more essays about philosophy and politics.

Shelley was the product of the French Revolution. The spirit of the French Revolution with the banner of freedom, equality and fraternity is not only reflected in Shelley's poems, but also in his personality and his attitude towards love and marriage. Shelley loves mostly the helpless and weak, and Shelley helps those women when they need help most. Every time he falls in love, he is also the loneliest, most depressed and most in need of sympathy and comfort. His love is based on sincere sympathy, and it also contains the meaning of seeking understanding and sympathy. His love and marriage have no utilitarian purpose and no family view. He was originally the heir to the title of baron and parliamentary seat, and his first and second wives were both civilians. He thinks that women's personality is equal to his. Of course, the freedom of love he pursued and practiced actually hurt women in the disadvantaged position in society and brought them pain and disaster. His understanding of freedom of love is naive and unrealistic. Shelley pursues unrestrained freedom, which contains his innocence and willfulness.

Shelley's love experience is a controversial place for later generations. In fact, Shelley has always been a controversial figure, and there have always been two diametrically opposite evaluations of Shelley. Shelley's views on art are as radical as his views on political, religious and social issues. He despises the common customs, and his poetry creation is unique. He integrated his intuitive feelings, emotional changes and philosophical thinking into his poems. At that time, British readers were used to the straightforward poems of the "Lake Poet". They thought Shelley was obscure, so the critics almost unanimously laughed at him and abused him, while readers were left out in the cold. During Shelley's lifetime, none of the other works sold more than 10 copies, except Queen Mabu, which was welcomed by radicals for attacking the current system. However, after Shelley, the style of English poetry has changed greatly. Readers accepted Shelley more easily, and critics gave him a high position. Paul johnson also admitted that Shelley was a "great poet".

The argument about Shelley is mainly about his character. Some of Shelley's close friends think that he is a very pure and kind person. For example, Byron said that Shelley was "the most selfless and kind person. He can sacrifice his wealth and feelings for others more than anyone I know." After the poet died, Shelley's wife mary shelley wrote many articles to prove his noble personality. /kloc-matthew arnold, a famous British literary critic in the 20th century, called Shelley "a beautiful and unrealistic angel flapping its shining silver wings in the air in vain". This poetic comment is often quoted. This view is accepted by most readers who love Shelley's poems. People can't imagine that those beautiful poems in ode to the west wind, Lark and Prometheus Liberated were written by an evil person. As paul johnson said, about Shelley, "Until recently, the general view was the tireless propaganda of his second wife and widow, mary shelley: the poet was an extremely pure, naive and ignorant figure, who devoted himself to art and his compatriots, although he was by no means a politician, but an extremely intelligent and over-sensitive child. Contemporary descriptions of his appearance reinforced this view: he was slim, pale and delicate, and remained young and delicate until he was in his twenties. "

From 18 18 to 18 19, Shelley completed two important long poems, Prometheus Emancipated and Qianqi, and his immortal masterpiece ode to the west wind. From Prometheus Liberated, people can appreciate its unparalleled rhythm, color and story, as well as the noblest thoughts of the poet contained in it. Ode to the west wind is a confession of the poet's "proud, swift and unruly soul" and a portrayal of the spirit of the times. With his poetic talent and the help of natural elves, the poet makes his life correspond to the surging west wind, and sings the melody of life and the crazy dance of soul with magnificent chapters.

182 1 On February 23rd, john keats passed away. In June, Shelley wrote to Adoni to express his condolences to Keats, and accused the British literary world and the social situation that led to Keats' early death. But in this poem, he also seems to have predicted his own death.

1On July 8th, 822, Shelley was caught in a storm on his way back to Lerich from the Lehanduhai by his own boat "Don Juan", and the boat capsized. Shelley and the two people on board survived. According to local laws in Tuscany, anything floating from the sea must be burned. Shelley's body was cremated by his friends Byron and Trelawney in a Greek ceremony. They put frankincense on the corpse and sprinkled salt on the fire. Surprisingly, Shelley's heart was intact in the fire. In June 5438+the following year 10, Shelley's ashes were brought back to Rome and buried in his ideal resting place.

Shelley died at the age of 30, leaving an unfinished victory in life, which is the most original of all his poems, among which his realism is particularly strong. As far as we can see, this part describes life as illusory as everything in the world, but it is almost certain that Shelley's intention in the second half is to show that human beings will be able to reach the peak of glory.

When Shelley died, his wife Mary was only 25 years old. She wrote his biography, edited and published his poems. Before his death, these poems were rarely published, and the reaction of this tiny part of the society was almost universal hatred or indifference. He also left many excellent essays, including the famous On Poetry. In this article, he analyzed the creative methods of poetry and defended the poets as "legislators who are not recognized by society".

Shelley's tombstone is engraved with three lines from Shakespeare's The Tempest: "Everything about him has not disappeared, but has experienced the variation of the sea and become rich and magical." The Encyclopedia Britannica commented on Shelley: "In an era of great poetry, the greatest lyric drama, the greatest tragedy, the greatest love poem, the greatest pastoral poem, and a whole group of long poems and short poems that many people think are unparalleled in form, style, image and symbolic meaning."

The ultimate goal of Shelley's romantic ideal is to create a new world where everyone enjoys freedom and happiness. He imagined himself as an angel flying day and night, a cloud floating in the blue sky, a lark soaring in space, and even a westerly wind in late autumn. He is the disseminator, eulogist and summoner of the new world ideal. He painted a beautiful picture for this new world with beautiful language and rich imagination, and boldly predicted: "Winter has come, can spring be far behind?" Therefore, Engels praised learning as a "genius prophet".

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