Discuss P.B. Shelley is a lyric poet
P.B. Shelley has been praised as one of the greatest lyric poets, England has ever produced. By his lyricism, he has acquired a very high niche in the temple of English poetry. By his lyricism we mean his lyrical quality. It is dominated by a charming expression of his individual or private emotion. According to one critic, his poetic emotion is: "
The product of swift, momentary and passionate impulse coming from without for the most part suddently awaking the poet, as it were out of dream into vivid lives. " The most striking element of Shelley's lyricism is emotion. By emotion, he means an excited state of the mind or strong personal feelings of any kind.
The first kind of emotion has been described by some critics as individual emotion. But Shelley the lyricist is at his best when he sings of his private emotion. Sometimes his personal emotion belongs to a mood of delight, but at other times, it emanates from a mood of gloom. When he is in a mood of gloom, his emotion touches our soul like anything.
The most famous of them are , To Night ' A lament song ' . ' Stazas written In Dejection Near Naples ' and ' Ode to the West Wind ' In the following, he sorrows at the loss of his self-confidence and optimism.
" O World! O life!
O time! On whose last steps I climed.
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No more oh never more. "
Another element of Shelley's lyricism is music. Outwardly, the music springs from the measured flow of words and phrases. But technically the music is produced by Shelley is an exposition of the sensuous qualities of speech sound. These qualities are pitch, duration, intensity and timbre. He arranges the words are phrases in his verse according to the principles of musical structures. Let us see the musical nature of the following.
" The sun is warm, the sky is clear,
The waves are dancing fast and bright,
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
The purple noons transparent light. " Again,
" We look before and after,
And pine for what is not ;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught,
Our sweetest songs are those the tell
of saddest thought.
The third remarkable feature of Shelley's lyricism is spontaneity. In his lyric To A Skylark ', he looks upon the bird as a spontaneous - lyricist. He addresses it as " blithy spirit. "
" That from heaven, or near it
Pourest they full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Shelley's lyrics have been praised high and low by critics of all the ages since his day , among the victorian, all praised him for his lyrical quality Swinburne called him ' A perfect singing God . '
Among the modern critics, E. Rays remarks that
" Shelley was a great lyric poet beyond doubt.
Thus in conclusion we can say that Shelley is one of the greatest lyric poets in English poetry. His lyricism consists of emotion, individual as well as private sweeping imaginary, musical diction and melodious rhythms, musical diction and melodious rhythms. The stream of his lyricism has undercurrents of humanism, melancholy, and bitterness against what we looked upon as ' evil ' . His song is pure inspiration, a thing of lightness, melody and grace.
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