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THIS IS AN ENGLISH PROJECT .....PREPARED ON P B SHELLEY BY ME....IT CONTAINS HIS BIOGRAPHY AND TWO OF IT'S POEMS......HOPE YOU LIKE IT....THANKS....

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BHANWARLAL GOTHI PUBLIC

SR. SEC. SCHOOL

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYHis signature:-

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CONTENTS…•About

P B Shelley•THE MOON•THE NIGHT

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Pery Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place in 1792, Warn ham near Horsham, Sussex. His father was Timothy Shelley (MP). In 1809 ,he published at his own expense Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, containing two of his sister’s poems as well as a selection of his own, and he wrote Zastrozzi and St Irvine. He entered University College, Oxford in 1810 (18), where he published various verses in Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson in association with his friend Thomas Hogg. In 1811 (19) he and his friend Hogg were expelled from college for writing and distributing a pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism, copies of which he had sent to all the heads of colleges in Oxford .In London he had met and visited the Westbrook family, whose 15 year old daughter Harriet had fallen in love with him. Shelley considered himself flattered, and eloped with Harriet to Edinburgh, where they were married.

ABOUT P B SHELLEY…..

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Harriet's father was a coffee house owner and she was not considered a suitable match for Shelley. He visited London alone, On his return he found Harriet's sister Eliza had joined her, and learned that in his absence Hogg had tried to seduce his wife. They moved to Dublin in 1812 (20), where he made a speech at the Fishable Theatre, and published two political pamphlets urging greater political rights for Catholics and autonomy for Ireland child who died after two weeks.. Shelley returned briefly to Dublin, then to London, taking a house at Windsor, while Harriet went with Eliza. On his return to England in 1815 (23) Mary gave birth to a child who died after two weeks.. Shelley returned briefly to Dublin, then to London, taking a house at Windsor, while Harriet went with Eliza to stay with her parents. He met Godwin. Queen Mob: a Philosophical Poem, destined to become a favorite radical text of the 19th century, was published in May 1813 (21), and, in the same year, his daughter Ianthe was born.

He took his last breadth in1822.

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One of his works is:

The MOON

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THE MOON

And, like a dying lady lean and pale,Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,

Out of her chamber, led by the insaneAnd feeble wanderings of her fading brain,

The moon arose up in the murky eastA white and shapeless mass.Art thou pale for weariness

Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,Wandering companionless

Among the stars that have a different birth,And ever changing, like a joyless eye

That finds no object worth its constancy?

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And, like a dying lady lean and pale,Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy

veil,Out of her chamber, led by the insaneAnd feeble wanderings of her fading

brain, The moon arose up in the murky east

A white and shapeless massIn the first stanza, we find the moon as a personified lady of weak

health, lean and pale who comes out of her chamber in feverish trembles. She emerges from a thin veil of clouds in a ‘gauzy veil’. Her insanity only brings her out in the black eastern sky with noromantic appeals but an insipid, shapeless mass of unattractiveness. The slow and blurred visibility of the moon strikes no popular mythical images but of sorrowful suffering.

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In the second stanza the moon appears to be more traditional poetic image of lady in

love. Here the moon is ‘wandering companionless’. Hers is the lonely image of Ruth in align field of corn. Like the blessed damozel, she is in heaven but with no heavenly

peace. Her lover lives in the far beneath the planet earth and she remains busy searching him. Farther, the moon and the stars are different geographical presence is artistically highlighted as having ‘a different birth’. Among the planets and stars, she remains the lonely satellite. She is changing her heavenly positions again and again

with joyless eyes to find her lover. She is faithful in love and in her constancy she bids for the lover in down earth. The image of such a lady in love with no real lover is itself

a melancholic paint of a lady forlorn:

Art thou pale for wearinessOf climbing heaven and

gazing on the earth,Wandering companionless

Among the stars that have a different birth,

And ever changing, like a joyless eye

That finds no object worth its constancy?

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THE NIGHT

ONE OF HIS WORKS:

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THE NIGHT

Thy brother Death came, and cried, 'Wouldst thou me?' Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmur'd like a noontide bee, 'Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me?'--And I replied, 'No, not thee!'

Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon-- Sleep will come when thou art fled. Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night-- Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!

SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave,-- Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear Which make thee terrible and dear,-- Swift be thy flight!

Wrap thy form in a mantle grey, Star-inwrought! Blind with thine hair the eyes of Day; Kiss her until she be wearied out. Then wander o'er city and sea and land, Touching all with thine opiate wand-- Come, long-sought!

When I arose and saw the dawn, I sigh'd for thee; When light rode high, and the dew was gone, And noon lay heavy on flower and tree, And the weary Day turned to his rest, Lingering like an unloved guest, I sigh'd for thee.

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Shelley calls on night to come quickly: "Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, / Spirit of Night." All day long he has waited for night; day has lingered like an unwanted guest. Neither death nor sleep will serve as a substitute. Death will come too soon in any case and sleep will come when night is over. Neither can give what night can give.AnalysisAs in "Ode to the West Wind," "The Cloud," and "To a Skylark," Shelley uses myth-making as his device for apostrophizing night This device enables him to give life and personality to a natural phenomenon.The poem was written in 1821, a year before Shelley's death. Like other lyrics of Shelley's last years, it reflects depression and a kind of weary resignation. It is not a cheerful poem, but, on the other hand, it does not incorporate a death wish like his "Stanzas Written in Dejection" of December 1818. Shelley explicitly rejects death in the poem. Yet the poem has a touch of morbidity in it: Night is preferred to day, and it is not invoked so that with it will come sleep. Shelley wants to escape from day and seek refuge in night, but in the poem he doesn't tell us why he wants night to come. The raison d'être of this strange little poem probably lies in Shelley's personality and in his state of mind when he wrote the poem. People found Shelley friendly and sociable, but he preferred the company of books and his own thoughts to society. During the day, he found it impossible to avoid the company of others; there was no escaping the many demands on his time and energy. At night, when others were sleeping, Shelley could withdraw into his own private world to read and meditate as he pleased. Night brought rest and peace, freedom from society and the everyday demands of life, and also the opportunity to indulge in the dark thoughts that the frequently unsatisfactory circumstances of his life made inevitable. One of these unsatisfactory circumstances in 1821 was that he had become infatuated with a young Italian girl, Emilia Viviani.

About the poem….

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His wife, Mary, was by this time well acquainted with Shelley's propensity to be strongly attracted to young women in whom he felt he detected certain affinities to be found nowhere else, and she had learned to be tolerant. But inevitably tensions developed, for Mary realized that she could not be everything for Shelley that he required. In September of 1821, Emilia married, and Shelley, who had idealized her in his "Epipsychidion," was cut off from all further communication with her. Her marriage left him, as he wrote to his friend John Gibson, "in a sort of morbid quietness." The Emilia episode was the major source of emotional tumult in Shelley's life in 1821."To Night" is so personal a poem that it is unlikely that it owes anything to poems with a night setting such as Milton's "Il Ponderosa nor to the eighteenth-century "Graveyard School of Poetry," which preferred night to day as a time for serious meditation. "To Night" is probably to be linked with other poems written in 1821, such as the moving "A Lament":O World! O life! O time!On whose last steps I climb,Trembling at that where I had stood before;When will return the glory of your prime?No more — Oh, never more!Out of the day and nightA joy has taken flight:Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more — Oh, never more!

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