The poem is about the character ‘Anarchy’ and his ‘mighty troops’ that trampled over England, killing and maiming the people. This representation is specifically shown by verse 10, which says ‘over English land he [Anarchy] passed, trampling to a mire of blood the adoring multitude’. Along with this the poem speaks of politicians that wept tears which turned to stone and crushed
These men were extremely popular during the early 1800’s, around when Percy really began to feel a connection with himself and some of the great poets in his time. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s works including Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind and The Masque of Anarchy express Shelley’s infatuation for nature’s beauty and also displays his passion for a less restrained society and his craving for other individual freedoms. As a child Percy was carefree and independent going wherever he pleased and exploring
believed his school bullies and school masters represented man’s general inhumanity towards their fellow man. Several of his works state the tyranny of religion and the oppressive government has on the population, including one of his works “The Masque of Anarchy”. He was also a big animal rights activist, believing that animals were being treated wrongfully treated and slaughtered, which is why he promoted vegetarianism and a natural diet in many of his works. He supported the lower classes, and believing
Margaret Fuller, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Theodore Dreiser are all real people, recreated by the book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters to portray their lives and how they lived even after death. Margaret Fuller was a woman’s rights activist, a writer, and a literary critic. She is best known for her feminist writing and literary criticism in 19th century America. She was born May 23, 1810 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. She was entwined with intellectuals around Massachusetts, including
The Role of the Poet in Ode to the West Wind The poem “Ode to the West Wind” by PB Shelley is a “highly thought provoking poem” (Rajasekharuni.) that makes the readers think about what makes life pleasant and unpleasant. The speaker in the poem tells that the answer lies “in the attitude of the liver” (Rajasekharuni). As humans, we find the cycle of seasons as natural but complain when we have to endure good and bad times. We do not see the course of the natural world in the same way as we see changes