Byron was deeply influenced by the history of bourgeois heroes. Besides, his family life is very unfortunate. He was born lame. He has been inferior and withdrawn since he was a child. Therefore, in addition to satirizing the real society and criticizing evil like a raging wave, Byron often has a lingering feeling of loneliness and melancholy, and is also known as a "melancholy romantic poet". Influenced by utopian socialism, Shelley's family life is relatively harmonious and there are no physical defects, so the tone of his works is mainly bright and optimistic. After criticism and exposure, happiness and beautiful hope, or some kind of cover, are often revealed. He was praised by Engels as a "genius prophet" and a "happy romantic poet" in readers' minds.
First, their political criticism works are tendentious, passionate, exquisite in sound and rhyme, and have strong fighting power and destructive power. For example, Byron's poem Sorrow for Greece eulogizes Greece's glorious past, exposes its enslaved present, and encourages people to strive for independence and freedom, all of which are full of his surging thoughts and strong feelings, just like a surging river. This greatly inspired the European people who rose up against oppression and fought for freedom at that time. Shelley's poems have a more obvious political tendency. He firmly believes that poets are not only poets, but also "trumpeters" and "world legislators". This strong emotion runs through Prometheus Liberated, which is passionate, solemn and stirring, magnificent and has the wonderful effect of symphony.
Secondly, there are obvious differences in their writing styles in other types and themes such as love, lyricism and chanting things. Byron's poems are beautiful, touching and elegant in style, mostly related to love, showing a sentimental tendency, which is closely related to his melancholy personality and personal experience, such as I wanted to break up with you once upon a time, and She walked in the glory of beauty. It is exciting and sincere for poets or young people to describe it in detail, or to describe it in a delicate psychological way. Shelley's poems in this respect seldom pay attention to elaborate sentences, which are grasped from the whole aspect. They are often good at the majestic overall structure, giving people a lofty sense of artistic conception; The objects of chanting things are mostly foreign objects, such as clouds, westerly winds and birds, such as ode to the west wind, Yunsong and lark. These poems are catchy and sincere, which can bring strength and support to people.
The third is subjective lyricism, focusing on depicting scenery and praising nature. As representatives of romanticism, both of them attach great importance to the expression of their inner feelings, and are good at creating lyric poems, lyric narrative poems or works with mythical colors, and express their thoughts and feelings about the dark reality and the pursuit of freedom and ideals with passionate, sonorous and even spicy and ironic language. Anyone who has read Byron's poems believes that everyone can clearly perceive his fiery heart and fiery personality and be impressed by his passion and lofty sentiments of the times. His poems are bitter and ironic, but also witty and subtle, changeable and intriguing. Just like Fantasy of Trial, the disgusting poem of the same name praised by southerners for George III was mercilessly ridiculed and satirized. Jianfeng pointed directly at the king of England and all reactionary forces, hitting the nail on the head. He also integrated satire, narration and lyricism, and rose from general satire to the height of political satire, known as "one of the most mature and complete political satire poems in the history of English literature".
In addition, out of disgust for capitalist cities, they inherited and developed the slogan of "returning to nature" and described and praised the natural scenery in many poems, but the purpose and expression were not consistent. Like Byrondo, he criticized the hypocrisy and oppression of capitalist society and expressed his yearning for freedom; Shelley used metaphors to express his ideals and feelings.
Fourthly, their works are full of imagination, and they pay attention to drawing inspiration from folk stories and myths and shaping new characters with new vitality. Like Byron's Byronic Hero, Don Juan, Shelley's Prometheus Liberated, and Maibu Fairy are all outstanding masterpieces in this field.