Percy Shelley Research Paper

Percy Shelley was a major English Romantic poet. He did many controversial things, especially for his time period and had many ideas that were different from most people of the time. He had an interesting and rather reckless life and died relatively young.
Percy Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 in Broadbridge Heath England. In 1810, he enrolled at Oxford, which he enjoyed much more than the previous school he had attended. After a few months, however, he was expelled. He and a friend had written a pamphlet that described the need for atheism. The school demanded that the boys admit or deny writing and when Shelley did neither, he was expelled. In 1811, against his parents’ will, he eloped with Harriet Westbrook. Their relationship was strained, but they would go on to have two children together. Before their second child was born, Shelley ran off with another woman. Her name was Mary and she was the daughter of Shelley’s mentor. Percy and Mary ran off to Paris for a while and when they returned, Mary was pregnant. When Harriet, who was still pregnant, learned of Mary’s pregnancy, she finally requested a divorce. Harriet gave birth in November of 1814 and Mary gave birth just three months later, but Mary’s child died just a few weeks after birth. Mary gave birth to another child in 1816. Harriet committed

He uses things like moonbeams kissing the seas and mountains kissing the high heavens to show how things in nature love each other. Shelley also uses repetition of the word mingle to convey how much the narrator wants to mingle with the woman he’s pursuing. He also uses rhetorical questions such as “Why not I with thine?” to show how the narrator of the poem thinks that the woman he’s talking to should be with him. The use of the literary devices in the poem help to convey the overall theme of the poem, which is “what’s the point in living without the one you