At the age of 8, Shelley began to write poetry, collaborated with his cousin Thomas in the poem The Wandering Jew and published the satirical novel Zastroch. In 181, 18-year-old Shelley entered Oxford University, deeply influenced by the works of British free thinkers Hume and Godwin. On February 12, 1812, Shelley, who sympathized with Ireland forcibly merged by Britain, went to Dublin with his wife to support the liberation of Irish Catholics, where Shelley delivered an impassioned speech and distributed the Letter to the Irish People and the Proposal to Establish a Philanthropic Association. In the following year, Shelley finished the narrative poem queen mab, which is full of philosophy and attacks the hypocrisy of religion and all the inequalities between the feudal class and the working class.
from p>1818 to 1819, Shelley completed two important long poems, Prometheus Liberated and Qian Qi, and his immortal masterpiece ode to the west wind. On July 8, 1822, Shelley took his own boat "Don Juan" and crossed the sea from Laihang to Lerich. On the way, he was caught in a storm, the boat capsized, and Shelley and the two people on board were all spared.
Shelley's tombstone is engraved with three lines from Shakespeare's The Tempest: "Everything about him has not disappeared, but he has experienced the variation of the sea and has become rich and magical."
(March 3, 21)
Appreciation of Poetry
Elegy is not a simple sadness about the impending death of life, although this poem appeared in Shelley's writing before his death. When the three abstract images of time, world and life are juxtaposed in the first sentence, this short poem already contains great mystery and mystery of time and space. As time goes by, the integration of historical vicissitudes makes people feel sad and gloomy, echoing the sigh of another poet in ancient China: "where, before me, are the ages that have gone?, and where, behind me, are the coming generations?, I think of heaven and earth, without limit, without end, and I am all alone and my tears fall down".
Thus, a universal human emotion-helplessness and loneliness in the face of life background becomes a faint color in the poem.
Shelley's poems always reverberate with a musical melody. The first sentence is sonorous and exciting, and the glory and regret, joy and sadness of the experience are like a variation, beautiful and melancholy. The last sentence of each section is repeatedly rendered, forming a lingering sound. Isn't this the moment when the poet sings?
In the whole poem, the death and birth of life, one of the vagaries and greatness of the world, the finite and eternal time, the shadow storm and splendor of the world, the fear of struggle and the joy of success, day and night, midsummer and winter, sadness and joy are intertwined into a poem, which weaves the color of life. Here, passion is no longer just a single high, but in the reverberating tunes, we can find the poet's heavy thinking about life.
When we read this poem, we ponder over it and imagine whether many mottled memories of life are condensed from the ashes of time at the moment when the poet wrote it. Because the world that belongs to us is beginning to go far, and only those memories that belong to today and tomorrow can prove our existence.