Percy Bysshe Shelley

xpelled Shelley for these pamphlets. Shelley then moved to Scotland with his sixteen-year-old bride Harriet Westbrooke creating a terrible scandal which he never received his father's forgiveness for. Revolutionary speeches on politics and religion in Ireland was next for Shelley and after his A Declaration of Rights pamphlet on the French Revolution was deemed too radical, he returned to England to pursue radical politics. He met William Godwin whom, by this time; he had developed a philosophical correspondence with, renewed his friendship with Leigh Hunt and realized he couldn't handle having only one woman in his life. Shelley formed a strong friendship with Mary Godwin and Jane Clairmont and spent a lot of time with them. "During this time the feelings between Mary and Percy developed into mutual passion" and Shelley was torn between his loyalty for his wife and his love for Mary... in the end he chose Mary. After revealing this to William Godwin, who was appalled by t!
             he whole thing, Mary and Percy ran off together with Jane too. Percy and Mary then got married after Harriet committed suicide, but the two would only be married for six years seeing Shelley the died on July 8th, 1822. Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned while sailing at the age of thirty.
             "The Ode to the West Wind is the most symphonic poem in the English Language" , says Stephen Spender. The poem published with Prometheus Unbound in 1820 is written with the verse form, terza rima, like the Dante poem Divine Comedy which to a lower extent had an influence on Shelley for this work:
             The stanza is made up of interlinking three-line units with the rhyme scheme a b a b c b c d c, continuing thus to the end of the stanza:
             O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, (a)
             Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead (b)
             Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, (a)
             Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, (b)...

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