Need an argumentative essay on Percy Shelly and William Wordsworth. Needs to be 5 pages. Please no plagiarism.Download file to see previous pages The theme of beauty and nature is common in the works

Need an argumentative essay on Percy Shelly and William Wordsworth. Needs to be 5 pages. Please no plagiarism.

The theme of beauty and nature is common in the works produced during the Romantic era. however each author has given their own voice to the description of nature. Even though Wordsworth and Shelly seem to be running on the same theme of nature, Shelly's perspective of nature is quite different to that of Wordsworth. This essay would compare and contrast the ways in which nature is described in Shelly's famous poem 'Mont Blanc' and Wordsworth's 'Prelude'.

Shelly's Mont Blanc is a natural ode, composed of 144 lines divided into five stanzas. Mont Blanc is actually a soliloquy of the poet in which he seems to be wondered by the vast mountain. he perceives it as a combination of a multitude of elemental forces and connects his mind and imagination with it. Through his poem, he wants to bridge the gap between the understandings of the human mind and the power of the nature.

Like Wordsworth, Shelly holds the beauty of nature in deep esteem. however Shelly is aware of the nature's power or the wilder side of nature. Through Mont Blanc we are able to see that Shelly views nature's power as not truly positive. she believes that Nature is as much a bane as it is a boon. Therefore unlike other romantic poets especially Wordsworth, Shelly's delight in nature is lessened due to her awareness and acknowledgement of the dark side of nature. Within the poem is a contrast seen in the attributes of nature. He compares the nature in quite a unique way in which the beauty of nature runs parallel to the fear and wonder it inspires in the beholder. He contemplates it as the 'Power' of nature which exists separately from the usual activities of life, acknowledges its ominous destructiveness and portrays it as a fearsome beauty. (Bygrave)

Shelly begins the poem with a litany of descriptive and regenerative images to describe a landscape that is sublime in the way that it represents both gloom and splendor and frightens and fascinates the observer,

The everlasting universe of things

Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves

A similarity could be traced between Shelly's and Wordsworth's perception of nature that both discern the connection of human mind to the nature and the great influence it has on it. However a more vivid is the difference in the mountain and indirectly nature is viewed by the poets. Shelly celebrates and expresses wonder and fear at the beauty of the mountain while Wordsworth is apparently grieved by the beautiful scenery because the seemed to have been thoroughly different from the image of the scenery he had formed up in his mind.

"That day we first

Beheld the summit of Mount Blanc, and grieved." (452-3)

The dialectical imagery of death and birth in the lines of the fourth stanza points towards the destructive forces of nature paired with the regenerative ones -is not reconciled, as it would be in Wordsworth, but is catalogued and represented as a part of natural process. Shelly's view of the Mont Blanc is that would live till the end of times, inspiring a sense of nature's presence in its beholders. Shelly views both sides of the mountain in his poem.