Shelley

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born into what kind of family?

wealthy
where did he go to school?
- boarding school at age 10
- was bullied there
what did he embrace?

atheism
known as a champion for who?
- the opressed
- *underdog
name of pamplet he wrote about atheism?

on necessity of atheism
what happened after he realesed the pamphlett?
- got expelled from oxford even though he thought it was an amazing writing
- **scandalized his family
thomas hogg?

friend at oxford who helped him write the pamphlet
what did he do when he went to scotland?

eloped with harriet westbrook
how was harriet abused by her father?

he made her go to school
who did he abandon harriet for?

mary wollstonecraft godwin
what did he view himself as?

an outcast
what did harriet do after she divorced shelley?

drowned herself
masterpiece?

prometheus unbound
how did he die?

drowned when his boat capsized
what did byron think of shelley?
- he thought he was the best man he ever knew
- *said this ever shelley died
how many kids did he have?

2
full name?

percy byshe shelley
wrote?
- ozymandias
- ode to the west wind
what happened when mary, percy and byron where living together?

bryon gets claire pregnant and they blame shelley
claire claremont?
- moves in with shelly, mary and byron
- **scandal
ozymandias?
- fame is fleeting
- he was mighty when he was alive, doesnt mean you'll be famous forever
- *the mighty fall sooner of later
another name for ozymandias?

ramsys II
Ode to the west wind?
- represents a life cycle, seasons change throughout poem
- senses are present
what does death equate to in ode to west wind?

equates to winter, falling of leaves
how is wind and destroyed and preserver? *from ode to west wind
- blows seeds everywhere (renew) -preserve
- but also destroys old plants

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Shelley

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shelley poems and bio

Updated

2012-03-21T23:20:22Z

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