Percy Shelley Research Paper

“O world! O life! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I have stood before,” “The great instrument of moral good is the imagination” (Shelley) . . . READ ON AND LEARN MORE! “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us” (Socrates). Percy Shelley is a beloved English author who influenced many with his works. Shelley’s answers to the wild portraits of life helped him come to an understanding of the common man’s and his own wild musing of the universe, thereby establishing in him and his followers an explanation of his own need to survive the many questions he could not answer as an atheist. Percy Shelley is a loved author who has written many classics,

When Shelley would write he would attempt to pass along his perspective. He would paint his wild portrait with words to the people who would read his writing. Being driven by his realizations and imagination also helped him gather ideas while writing. Most importantly he would involve his beliefs into his writing. In his poem Alastor, he wrote about his “visions for improvement of humankind” (Notable Biographies). Another way Shelley would gather inspiration was what was going on in his life. Before writing The Revolt of Islam, his first wife Harriet died in the winter by suicide. As a result the poem became a story of about love and about “humankind's love-inspired struggle for brotherhood” (Notable Biographies). Although his life had challenges he would take the worst and make the best out of it with his writing. His experiences kept adding up and he would take them and with words paint

Altogether, Shelley was an extremely talented writer with strong beliefs. Using his talent of painting pictures with words and his finding love for his second time, enabled her to write his wife’s book Frankenstein. Thus, we can conclude with Shelly’s maddening consort with life he found connections through his writings, giving him the ability to align himself with a new voice reflecting the new life he found and the little he understood not only about life but himself