Poetry anthology notes

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Loves Philosophy Analysis

themes: male speaker persuades female listener to have a sexual relationship with him

born 1792

romantic poet

wealthy family- went to eton and oxford, set to inherit

expelled from Uni as wrote in favour of atheism

Shelley was not popular during his lifetime, wrote almost exclusively for himself

pacifist, vegetarian, atheist

romanticism: a dislike of urban life and an embrace of the natural world, a love of the supernatural, use of everyday language

focuses on the natural world and has supernatural imagery

a two part argument

stanza 1: unity

stanza 2: togetherness

evidence of demanding and cohersing in the poem

evidence of a sweet love poem

storyline of the poem is not important - the analysis matters

debate over form of this: lyric poem or dramatic monologue

lyric poem: emotional- 'heaven' 'divine' 'forgiven' . religious imagery causes ambiguity as he was atheist therefore

love is sacred - but he was deeply against it therefore presents speaker as disingenuous and will say whatever it takes to win this women over

dramatic monologue: single person talking, speaker is never the poet, a one way conversation, reader works as a detective

majority says lyric poem

do not hear women response- all about man getting what he wants

humorous, tongue-in-cheek arguments, bizarre line of argument