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Have you ever reacted badly to a negative experience or felt awful after waking up from a bad dream, or simply let one thought consume your mind and ruin your day? Well I am guessing you would have answered yes to at least one of these questions, as they all reflect the inevitability of change. This change is consistent with human life, impacting all humans regardless of age, gender, race or religion. Subsequently, the inevitability is a concept, which remains relevant to people living in modern society. This is acutely illustrated in Percy Shelley’s romantic work, suitably titled Mutability, meaning the liability or tendency to change.
Today, I will be discussing Romanticism and how the ideas, attitudes, and values that comprise the genre have remained influential and evident in modern literature, whilst prosing lively connections with 21st century readers.
Loosely spanning from 1750-1850, Romanticism cultivated individualism, with it’s poets expressing their liberty to speak without censorship and live independently. Reverence for …show more content…
Immediately, he links this focus by comparing humans to clouds that ‘veil the midnight moon’ as a metaphor for the human concealment of change. This represents the perpetuation of change despite our attempts to conceal it, using the image of night enveloping us, to demonstrate human mortality. This imagery aids in connecting modern readers to the ideas featured in this romantic work, in particular, the human reaction to mutability itself. Shelley then demonstrates the human renewal process during our sleep by further describing the clouds whom were once ‘streaking the darkness radiantly’, but ‘are lost forever’ as the ‘night closes round’ (lines 3-4). This represents the daily release of energy and our ability to refresh our minds and bodies each day, despite our previous
Have you ever reacted badly to a negative experience or felt awful after waking up from a bad dream, or simply let one thought consume your mind and ruin your day? Well I am guessing you would have answered yes to at least one of these questions, as they all reflect the inevitability of change. This change is consistent with human life, impacting all humans regardless of age, gender, race or religion. Subsequently, the inevitability is a concept, which remains relevant to people living in modern society. This is acutely illustrated in Percy Shelley’s romantic work, suitably titled Mutability, meaning the liability or tendency to change.
Today, I will be discussing Romanticism and how the ideas, attitudes, and values that comprise the genre have remained influential and evident in modern literature, whilst prosing lively connections with 21st century readers.
Loosely spanning from 1750-1850, Romanticism cultivated individualism, with it’s poets expressing their liberty to speak without censorship and live independently. Reverence for …show more content…
Immediately, he links this focus by comparing humans to clouds that ‘veil the midnight moon’ as a metaphor for the human concealment of change. This represents the perpetuation of change despite our attempts to conceal it, using the image of night enveloping us, to demonstrate human mortality. This imagery aids in connecting modern readers to the ideas featured in this romantic work, in particular, the human reaction to mutability itself. Shelley then demonstrates the human renewal process during our sleep by further describing the clouds whom were once ‘streaking the darkness radiantly’, but ‘are lost forever’ as the ‘night closes round’ (lines 3-4). This represents the daily release of energy and our ability to refresh our minds and bodies each day, despite our previous