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Essay / The Personification of Nature in the Poetry of Percy Shelley
Personification has been used by many poets, authors and writers to attract the attention of their audience by drawing a comparison. This technique of giving immanent objects human characteristics allows readers to better identify with what is depicted on the page. Poets of the Romantic era, especially the second generation, including Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats, loved to use personification to grab their readers' attention and make them return to nature and see its beauty if they could. The early Romantics, Burns, Blake, Coleridge, and Worth, began this process through their poetry: “The world is too much with us; late and early, in obtaining and spending, we waste our powers: we see little in nature that belongs to us. nature to the people of the world through their radical remarks and the images they create. Shelley was a second generation poet who mastered the art of personification and used it to the best of his abilities to voice his opinion on the thoughts of those around him. His poems Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark each use personification to show the similarity between nature and the spirit of the individual while his lyrics call for a rebirth of the romantic love of the world in which each no one is surrounded. Ozymandias is a work less filled with personification and more a metaphorical example of what is to come. The poem is about a man who traveled to Egypt to see the ancient ruins, and upon his return he tells of a large statue he observed. The statue is of the great pharaoh Ramesses II, also known as Ozymandias, who built a huge paper building......bird in To a Skylark, each showing the value of nature in their own way. Shelley wants people to look around and understand that nature provides so many fantastic and fascinating things, that it is powerful and can overcome any work of man, but that humans still believe that they have total control, that she manipulates and allows the beauty of the world and the seasons. but many neglect this miracle, and it contains creatures who know only happiness and yet most do not notice it and do not complain about themselves. Shelley's goal, through his words, was to call the human race back to nature and ensure that nature once again becomes a treasured part of every individual's spirit, regardless of their circumstances. It can be difficult to entertain yourself, but the beauty of nature surrounds every person and the only thing needed to access it is an open, corporate mind..