Shelley saw the role of a poet as more than just an entertainer. For Shelley, poets were tragic figures with a deep understanding of nature who could use their poetry to subtly change the world through political, social, and spiritual reforms. Shelley himself participated in reforms and wrote about liberty, equality, and justice. However, he also saw poets as saviors who faced opposition from critics, tyrannical governments, and conventional society but who could inspire future generations through their work.

1. SHELLEY AS A POET:

2.  For Shelley the role of a poet is just not that of a
entertainer.
 A poet is magnificent and tragic figure and has a
deep understanding and appreciation of nature.
Poetry gives him access to subtle truths.
 Poetry, for Shelley is some sort of prophesy
where a poet acquires the ability to change the
world for better and to bring about changes in
every single aspects of life: political, social, and
spiritual.

3.  Shelley’s poet is a savior who is often sentenced
to abdominal suffering caused by some external
factors like critics, tyrannical government,
religion, conventionality, hypocrisy etc…
 Shelley’s poet wins over these hardships and
lives to inspire the next generation.
 During his college time Shelley wrote The
Necessity of Atheism in which he questioned the
existence of God. For this he was expelled from
the university and was left out by his family
without any financial support.

4.  He himself participated in political and social
reforms and wrote his views on liberty, equality
and justice.
 A believer of free love. (his own life)
 Rosalind and Helen, shows plight of women
under the traditional and conventional laws of
marriage
 Julian and Maddalo, a philosophical poem
 Ozymandias, tyranny of rulers,
 The Witch of Atlas, a poem on wandering
imagination, sense of beauty and perfection of
nature.

5.  The Triumph of Life, is about quest for love,
beauty, freedom, meaning of life.
 Poet of optimism
 Poet of change
 Poet of ideas
 Poet of society
 Poet of exploration
 He was a rebel in himself.
 He doesn’t escape from society but he wants to
create better world.

6.  IfWinter comes, can Spring be far behind?
-Ode to theWestWind
 It seems like a poem of nature. But he includes
human nature into it. He sees the West wind as a
change. Wind which can go everywhere, can
inspire people. But at the end an individual has
to inspire him/her self on his/her own. If one fails
to do such thing, one is dead.

7.  “And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

8.  “Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.”

9. Thank You