Percy Shelley
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The concept of love in Shelley is a redeemer of the negative aspects of self, as surely as Christ represents the redeemer of men’s souls in Christianity. It is also a communion, or a commingling, of I and Other in a selfless, sympathetic, mutuality. When Shelley is writing on love, he is writing on a concept that absolutely denies egocentrism. Only the selfless identity can love, a martyr who claims to be love-devoted and not self-devoted. Love represents the total mingling of the self and the other, an absolute communion wherein the two lovers basically become the same energy like the components of an electro-magnetic force. We see this in Shelley’s lyric, Love’s Philosophy. Within the poem we see that there is a complete fusion of the physical, emotional, spiritual and natural:The fountains mingle with the river, This type of complete fusion of the energies of the two lovers is not meant to represent passionate love, for Shelley believed there was selfishness in sexual desire. However, it does suggest that nature be the guide for the type of commingling Shelley’s love of other aspires to. It is an idealized, genuine fusion, a loving mutuality in which the two lovers completely selflessly become one energy force like those i
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is transformation was one which Shelley viewed as ambivalent when looking at the self and the self after the transformed state. He believed that the transmutation of the self into another state, i.e. love, does cause the self to vanish but not absolutely because the self exist even if in another form. We see him express this concept through the use of natural imagery once again, nature being his model for this dissolving and transmuting process, in To A Skylark:
The pale purple even
Melts around they flight,
Like a star of Heaven
In the broad day-light
Thou art unseen, - but yet I hear they shrill delight,
Keen as are the arrows
Of that silver sphere,
Whose intense lamp narrows
In the white dawn clear
Until we hardly see – we feel that it is there.
All the earth and air
With they voice is loud,
As when Night is bare
From one lonely cloud
The moon rains out her beams – and Heaven is overflowed.
What thou are we know not;
What is most like thee?
From rainbow clouds there flow not
Drops so bright to see
As from they presence showers a rain of melody.
(Keach 123-124)
The skylark may disappear from our sight but we still here It by its sounds. It is an interfusion of light and liquid much as Shelley viewed th
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