Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem Analysis

Percy Bysshe Shelley stands in a field, looking out at a Sky Lark shooting into the sky, singing a piercing song that strikes the man right to his core. The experience is recounted in swooping, emotional lines of poetry that, though beautiful, can’t do justice to the living experience. Frustrated and aware of his damaged being, his broken heart and the purity of the bird’s life compared to his own, Shelley writes of the longing for beauty, the search for truth and it’s source, and his almost hopeless anxiety of what lies beyond what he can see and touch. In an eloquent poem, recounting a bird’s flight and song, Shelley finds his words too shallow for the depth and complexity of his brush with the sacred.
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