Appreciation of Shelley's To the Lark.

To the lark is the representative work of the poet's lyric poetry. Poetry enthusiastically praises larks with romanticism. In the poet's pen, the lark is a symbol of joy, light and beauty. Poets use metaphors, analogies and questions to describe larks. He compared the lark to a poet, to a girl in a boudoir, and to a firefly, thus vividly showing the beautiful image of the lark to readers. The poet compared the lark's singing with the spring rain, the chorus at the wedding and the song of victory, highlighting the great power of the lark's singing. Poetry is short in rhythm, light and smooth, full of passion, with interlocking sections and layers of advancement, which is very artistic. The poem To the Lark vividly expresses the poet's yearning for light and pursuit of ideals through the image of the Lark. Lark is a kind of bird, which looks like a sparrow, but it is a little bigger. It lives in the wild grassland, nests on the ground and likes to fly high. It often rises from its "territory" and flies into the sky, screaming as it flies, flying higher and higher. Because larks have this unique habit, they are often chosen as the object of praise by poets. However, different poets write larks in different moods. For example, Wordsworth praised the lark for being loyal to the sky and home, while Shelley praised the lark for "going up and flying to the sky again and again", not only missing home, but also despising the ground. This lark image is not a pure lark in essence, but an ideal self-image of the poet, or an image carrier of the poet's ideal. Shelley repeatedly said in his poem that he was not as good as the lark, and I didn't know how to approach its joy. In fact, poets and larks are similar in many ways: they both pursue light, despise the ground and yearn for an ideal world. The only difference is that the poet painfully felt the huge gap between ideal and reality, which does not exist for larks. One side is jumping and singing, and the other side is sour and bitter. In fact, the two are opposite and connected. Of the two, soaring is the dominant aspect. Judging from the tone of the whole poem, although Shelley felt the pain of distant ideals, he still surpassed sentimentality with a rising positive emotion. Clouds vividly depict the image of larks calling for dawn in the dark. The poet wrote his spiritual realm, aesthetic ideal and artistic reward with full passion. In the poem, the lark imitates the rhythm of soaring and sings, and the lark's song becomes brighter and louder. While listening to the lark's singing, the poet hopes that his singing can also bring happiness and hope to people. The "cloud" in To the Lark is described as something with great vitality. It absorbs water from rivers, lakes and seas, and then rains on the earth to cultivate beautiful flowers.