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“A Defence of Poetry”
Percy Bysshe Shelly, in his “A Defence of Poetry”, mainly discusses what poetry is, who a poet is, what the principles of poetry are and how these principles are applied. In the first part of his work, he focuses on the argument what poetry is, which is the very section we are interested in, now that we are to relate the work to 3 poems.
On this point, in order to relate the peace of work with 3 poems, which, I suppose, will be his own poems “To a Sky-Lark” and “The cloud”; and “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, we can present the quote below:
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar; it reproduces all that it represents, and the impersonations clothed in its Elysian light stand thenceforward in the minds of those who have once contemplated them, as memorials of that gentle and exalted content which extends itself over all thoughts and actions with which it coexists.
Approximate Word count = 672
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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