Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's Philosophy I. The Fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law devine In one another's being mingle-- Why not I with thine? II. See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain'd its brother: And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea-- What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me? The poem Love's Philosophy tells a story of how nothing is alone in this planet and that there is always a pair for everything. Shelley gives examples of how nothing is alone by talking how "the Fountains mingle with the river/And the rivers with the ocean,/The winds of heaven mix for ever/With a sweet emotion." These lines give the feeling that the world is not as lonely as it really is. It makes the reader feel like they cannot be lonely for a long time because everything has a pair to it; however, she also feels that somethings do not have a pair, as she doesn't. She feels that everything has a pair, but she feels as aif there is not one for her.
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I MET a Traveler from an antique land, Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings." Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair! No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. The poem is about a King who is looking over his Kingdom and admiring what he sees. He is looking over everything he has to show for. The tone of the poem is that there is no power unless you have something to show for. There is no way to show that you had power unless you had something with your name on it. The poem is shown from the perspective of an onlooker of the statue.
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