What are Shelley's main works?
In western romantic literary theory, symbol is poetic, and myth and imagination are extremely important symbolic forms. Shelley is one of the representative poets of romanticism in the history of English literature. His poems are rich in images and profound in connotation. The organic combination of imagination and myth in his works gives people the enjoyment of beauty and the inspiring force to make progress, which has obvious romantic characteristics. Percy bysshe shelley (1792- 1822) is a famous English romantic poet. In his short life, he created a lot of lyric poems, such as the long poem Queen Mabu (18 13), the poetic drama Prometheus Liberated (18 19) and ode to the west wind (18). These immortal works are exquisite in language, fantastic in imagination and wonderful in meaning. Mrs. Shelley thinks that "every word and line in Shelley's poems is naturally unique in beauty." Poets have created their own brilliance and brilliance in the country of poetry, which has a strong romantic aesthetic color. Western romantic literature emphasizes "the expression of passionate subjective feelings or ideals, as well as the transcendence of pastoral and the expression of religious world". Poetry is a "symbolic expression". Different images will be organically combined through the poet's peculiar imagination, while romantic poetry embodies rich symbolic aesthetics. Its main features are as follows: First, in comparison, romantic poets have a strong demand for higher unity. Second, "Romantics regard art, especially poetry, as some kind of highest reality". The symbolism theory of romanticism has a deep relationship with religions and myths in the Middle Ages, so it is a common practice for romantic poets to associate literature and art, especially poetry, with the secret spiritual world of religion. The poet Shelley is good at spiritualizing the images in his works. Through fresh poems, poetic metaphors, the pursuit of freedom and the extensive use of symbols and mythological features, Shelley's artistic style of inner and outer channeling has been formed. Source: Literature Education Mid-term Edition