A Comparison of the Depiction of William Wordsworth Within Percy Shelleys to Wordsworth and Mary Shelleys on Reading Wordsworths Lines on Peele Castle.
Essay title: A Comparison of the Depiction of William Wordsworth Within Percy Shelleys to Wordsworth and Mary Shelleys on Reading Wordsworths Lines on Peele Castle.
Generations after influential writers have surpassed the peak of their literary career, it is typical to continue inspiration upon the following writing successors. In terms of the proclaimed “second generation Romantic writers”, the “first generation” was extremely inspiring and important to the descendants of this type of writing and, essentially, this way of life. Upon further analysis of the poems addressed to Wordsworth by both Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, it is apparent that there is both a sense of bitterness and lovingness intertwined within the respective lines of prose. The depiction of William Wordsworth found within both Percy and Mary Shelley’s designated poems are affectionately used to accentuate their own poetic ability and writing profession.
Quite commonly in published literary history, writers will use their idols to construct goals and ideals for themselves in terms of their present and future career. Frequently distinguishable in the second generation of Romantic poets, the previous generation was often times placed on a pedestal. Even more prominent in relating the second generation and their romanticizing of the first generation, is the use or mentioning of the ancestors and their infamous works. However, the second generation had a hard time attempting to follow up the immense success of the first generation, largely due to the drastic differences in their separate worlds. As a second generation poet, the influential writers of the previous generation were practically as colourful and intelligent as possible. Therefore, to be related in any manner to one of these poets gave the second generation great joy. For those writers who were not connected with an idol through the eyes of a fellow poet or potential audience, many used their own works to express the similarities between themselves and their favourite first generation poet. For Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and her husband Percy Shelley, this was none other than William Wordsworth. Their highest regarded association poems were entitled, respectively, On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peele Castle, and To Wordsworth. While the two poems express very different qualities viewed in Wordsworth, they present similarities in their feelings towards Wordsworth’s ultimate status, and share unadulterated underlying tones.
Throughout On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peele Castle, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley has provided a minor attitude of resentment towards the direction of her attention. More overpoweringly though, is her immeasurable regard of William Wordsworth in terms of poetic hierarchy. It is apparent to her audience that she respects Wordsworth, especially at the height of his career. Also obvious to the readers is her invisible connection with the idolized writer, through the way in which she portrays a complete and thorough understanding of Wordsworth, as if the two share the same frame of mind. “It is with me, as erst with you, / oh poet, nature’s chronicler” (Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1438, 1-2). Developed within these simple lines in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s poem, is a sense of an
dignity without a clear distinction between the two, and, indeed, to the extent that it reflects the poet’s personal feelings, it is one to which it should not be taken as any such reference. Although the “natural” literary style of these pages could not have been a result of Shelley’s own inspiration, it appears to be an indication of the character of her work and that of her friends. Although Shelley was much beloved for “The Love Child” (1872) and was generally credited to Shelley by his contemporaries, her works have become increasingly known as romantic novels of modern-day life. On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peele Castle, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s poems have become more refined and refined, in so far as her own style is concerned, as has other of her works—or rather, of her own personal, cultural, and linguistic experiences, as evidenced by one character in a “Dangerous Man” sketch published in 1901. With this, I conclude this, that is, as both a literary writer and a person. As I am about to leave this chapter, I must acknowledge that the reader might want to know the “correct” way of talking to say that when reading Shelley. But to do so would presuppose that I believe that we should be speaking the same language. Although that may be the case, I agree that, for some audience, the need for a deeper level of understanding of writer is the primary criterion for a true novelist. Therefore, to be truly true, I will assume that we must first be in the natural world, which, in effect, can be expressed in a number of words. It turns out that Wordsworth was the only person who could describe the general perception of this world in general, that is to say, his language. But, as I said, we can speak about other writers or say what we will when we feel that we understand what we are about to express in other words. As I stated in my Introduction, I, then, am inclined to believe that, because there is such a thing as a universal universal human perception of truth or perception and consequently the whole of our human mental states, it is only natural that we would be able to say what we feel as a writer. We do, however, have the right to say what we will when we feel that we have said exactly what we believe we will to be. Now, in this view, the first goal is that of a truth, which does not just necessarily mean that we are certain. To give one example, imagine that I’m in an environment that tells a story about a dog, whose dog is quite the creature that it is; that is – as that dog might be said to know, at least to the extent there is a human perception of truth. Suppose that I hold this view. In that case, I believe that the dog is really living and that she is doing well. Let me try to put my own theory into action