English 1024E Lecture Notes - Ode To A Nightingale, The Divine Image, Sexually Transmitted Infection
29 Jan 2013
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This poem is teaching us to accept what god has provided for ustake great advantage of it instead of over thinking it and abusing the great and magnificent beauties of nature. Is a sonnet that speaks to the discontent that many readers feel with the materialistic precedence of contemporary society. Described a mighty king who was striving in his whole life for his possessions and got involved in worldly assignments so much that he forgot his ultimate destiny. Beside this, shelley reminds the readers of their mortality through the realization that our earthly accomplishments, so important to us now, will one day be finished. By drawing these vivid and ironic pictures in readers minds, with different symbols, shelley was trying to illustrate that no one lives forever in the world, not even their assets or belongings. This sonnet is a clear example of romantic poetry:
