The poet is not a Christian, he writes from the point of view that evokes a …show more content…
He can’t understand the reason behind this. He will never be as good as the creator and believes his work is worthless in comparison to the beauty of the world. He is a poet, and the delivery of books and riches of the written word are very important to him. To place the natural beauty of the bird is a high compliment.
The bird is a scorner of the ground! This is such a mesmerizing set of words. Shelley is looking at his own feet, stuck and set on the earth, unable to push away. He himself is a scorner of the ground of the gravity that locks him into a life he cannot escape. The skylark, however, has been established not to have hardened anger or malice but yet, Shelley gives him scorne. He sees his talents as worthless and see the bird shoot upward, and envies that get away. He paints the bird as a scorner of the ground but it is truly Shelley who longs to push off, up a way in the