Personification has been used by many poets, authors and writers to attract the attention of their audience by making a comparison. This technique of giving immanent objects human-like characteristics allows readers to better identify with what is portrayed on the page. Poets of the Romantic era, particularly the second generation including Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats, loved the use of personification to draw readers' attention and make them return to nature and see its beauty if they could. The early Romantics, Burns, Blake, Coleridge and Andworth began this process through their poetry: “The world is too much with us; late and early, earning and spending, we waste our strength: we see little in nature that is ours. "(Wordsworth) These lines of poetry became the foundation for the "young hell" poets as they strove to reciprocate nature's love to the people of the world through their radical words and the images they create. Shelley was a second-rate poet generation who mastered the art of personification and used it to the best of his ability to make his opinion on thoughts heard by the people around him His poems Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark each use personification to show the similarity between the nature and spirit of the individual as his words call for a rebirth of the romantic love of the world in which each person is surrounded. Ozymandias is a work less full of personification but more a metaphorical example of what is to come poem is about a man who traveled to Egypt to see the ancient ruins and when he returns he tells of a large statue he observed. The statue represents the great pharaoh Ramesses II, also known as Ozymandias, who built a huge st.... .. middle of paper...... bird in To a Skylark everyone shows the value of nature in their own way. Shelley wants people to look around and understand that with nature comes so many amazing and fascinating things, it is powerful and can surpass any work of man, yet humans still believe they are in total control, it manipulates and allows beauty into world and in the seasons happen, but many overlook that miracle, and it contains creatures who know nothing but happiness, but most still fail to notice it and take pity on themselves. Shelley's goal, through his words, is to call the human race back to nature and for nature to once again be a precious part of every individual's spirit, regardless of circumstance. It might be difficult to entertain but the beauty of nature is around every person and the only thing needed to access it is an open mind and corporate spirit.
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