What is the writing background and purpose of A Withered Violet?

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.

18 1 1 On March 25th, Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for spreading 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. They got married in Edinburgh and lived in York after marriage.

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.

In May of the following year, I traveled to Europe with Mary, and kept close contact with Byron by the lake of Geneva. The friendship between the two great poets of his time remained until Shelley died. Shelley's later work Julian and Maddalo is based on Byron and himself. In June of the same year 165438+ 10, Shelley's wife threw herself into the river. In court, because she is the author of Queen Mabel, the judge awarded her father-in-law the right to raise two children. Because of this, Shelley suffered a heavy blow, and even his closest friends were afraid to mention their children in front of him. Out of pain and anger, Shelley wrote to judges and judges. Shelley married Mary, and in order not to affect the custody of the children born to him and Mary, Shelley and his family left England forever.

From 18 18 to 18 19, Shelley completed two important long poems, Prometheus Liberated and Qianqi, with his immortal masterpiece ode to the west wind. Prometheus Liberated can't be published as well as Queen Mabel, and Shelley's most mature and perfect work, Thousand Wonders, is called "the worst work of our time, as if it were written by the devil" by British critics.

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.

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. In June 5438+the following year 10, Shelley's ashes were brought back to Rome and buried in his ideal resting place.

Shelley's marriage was attacked by his enemies as the best weapon from the beginning. When the romantic chivalry was cooled by reason, the truer side of his hasty marriage began to appear with the growth of two people. Shelley had to admit that marriage didn't help his wife. Marriage just ties two people together to endure another kind of torture. Mentally and emotionally, the difference between the two people is getting bigger and bigger. During this period, Shelley met Godwin's daughter, mary wollstonecraft Godwin (1797-185 1 year), that is, the famous female writer mary shelley. They fell in love and traveled to Europe together. Their ideals of love and marriage are so pure that even the harshest critics can't say it. After Shelley died, Mary edited and annotated all his poems.