Posted by GLeVan on February 15, 19102 at 09:48:50:

In Reply to: Re: need help on Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry posted by Pat on April 12, 19101 at 17:55:29:

: Thesis: Percy JB. Shelley's poetry is so predominately devoted to the male point of view that it diminishes the possibility that the mate - the woman - exists in her own right.

: Any help will be appreciated.
: Thanks. Pat

Shelley lived his life with the same intensity of many of the romantics of that period--women were primarily elevated (or reduced for that matter) to accomodate an ideal that represented man's inability to deal with more then image. Joni Mitchell alluded to it in Blue--"All Romantics make the same mistakes, they're so cynical and drunk and boring someone else in some dark cafe." (or words to that effect)--The beauty of his poetry is not diminished by it's sheer, one-dimensioned affect--after all, it is not 'he' who walks in beauty like the night--men are not elements of beauty but sounding boards to the primal beauty of the world. Women are as to the world as men are to an audience watching a play. Notice, however, it is men that sip and savor the fine wine. I particularly enjoy Shelley but ultimately, he paid a price for making ficton what has to be real to be lived. GLeVan

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