Analysis Of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Song To The Men Of England

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a well-known poet throughout the romantic period and wrote many poems during this time period. But in his master-piece Song-To the Men of England, he showed that even though he can dumb down his poem, he can still write a pretty good one. The reasoning for this was so that the men of England, the working class people that they are being used and are getting nothing in return. But in the poem Shelley uses many different poetical devices that makes this poem stand out. Then he brings it all together to show how the wealthy of England are taking advantage of the working class citizens. There are many poetical devices in Percy’s poem Song-To the Men of England that help bring it together. But the one device that stands out the most throughout the poem, also is most important to any poem is the …show more content…
He compares them to bees. The wealthy class is the queen bee which does nothing all day and reaps the rewards from the drone bees, who are the working class people. The working class people will work their whole life away just to get nothing in return. The reason for Percy to use the bee metaphor is because it’s easy to understand what he is trying to get across in his poem Song-To the Men of England that they work hard for nothing in return. Maybe this should be a song.
Another great device that is used in this poem is how Percy uses rhyme scheme and the way he setup the poem with the eight stanzas all having four lines. This can be turned into a song almost because of the way he has it setup. It would be a good one because it’s talking about revolting against the wealthy of England and taking back what is theirs. With the rhyme of the AABB format and the four line stanza it can almost be put into a song all it needs is a good beat to go with it (Kory