Love’s Philosophy..Poem by: Percy Bysshe Shelly

Presentation by: Emma Timmons

Percy Bysshe Shelley

o Born August 4, 1792… Died July 8, 1822o Percy was Born into a wealthy family in Sussex, England o Percy drowned while sailing at age 29.o Percy produced gorgeous lyrical poetry quintessential of the

Romantic Era.o Percy is perhaps best remembered for the mythical poem

“Prometheus Unbound” and for “Adonais”, an elegy to his friend John Keats.

Nothing of him that doth fade. But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

“Love’s Philosophy”

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 divineIn one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me

2 stanzas.

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4 lines in each stanza because of indentation

Rhyme Scheme..

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 divineIn one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me

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Rhyme scheme: The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

Approximate rhyme: a rhyme that has the same end sound.

Imagery…

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 divineIn one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me

Imagery: visually descriptive or figurative language

Personification..

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 divineIn one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me

Mountains cant kiss.

Waves cant clasp or hold onto each other.

Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

Alliteration

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 divineIn one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me

Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Literal & figurative meaning..

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 divineIn one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea:What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me

Literal Figurative

This poem talks about how nature is bound by divine force. How nothing is single.

When you read between lines Percy is really talking about the idea of him being slip up with his beloved. And he brings in nature to illustrate how elements of nature manage to find and be with counterparts; he is talking about spiritual love.

Documentation…

o www.poetryoutloud.orgo http

://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/