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    <title>Percy Bysshe Shelley Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the Percy Bysshe Shelley Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[1. "Love's Philosophy" demonstrates one of the key elements of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[1. "Love's Philosophy" demonstrates one of the key elements of Romanticism--lessons from nature. Many Romantic poets use elements of nature (seashells, the wind, the ocean, etc.) to discuss truths about the human condition.  Shelley certainly does so in his poem. Every line except the last line of the two stanza discusses how natural elements blend and interrelate. Thus, the speaker of the poem questions why he cannot "mingle" with his...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are at least two aspects of romanticism that show up clearly in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are at least two aspects of romanticism that show up clearly in "Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The idea that emotion, rather than reason, should control people.  This is a very emotional poem that really has nothing going on in it except the speaker's strong emotion.
Love of nature.  You can see this aspect in the things Shelley uses to express his love.  Everything he talks about in the whole poem is part of nature. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:57:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the relation between Shelley's "Love's Philosophy" and the idea...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the relation between Shelley's "Love's Philosophy" and the idea of romanticism?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[It might be more helpful if you suggested the actual poem that was being...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It might be more helpful if you suggested the actual poem that was being sought out.  One thing I have always felt in terms of analyzing the summative action in a poem is to identify the literal action that is happening in the poem.  Being able to focus on this might be able to give some level of structure ot the explanation of the surface meaning of the poem.  For example, in Ozymandias, what is literally happening in the poem?  This...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:06:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do I summarize a poem?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do I summarize a poem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:24:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The word "philosophy" could be interpreted to mean 'the main  principle...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The word "philosophy" could be interpreted to mean 'the main  principle of logical thought underlying any field of knowledge.'
So, according to Shelley the "philosophy" of 'love' as revealed by him in this poem is that 'just like how everything in Nature is organically united two persons in love must also be organically united.' The following four lines express succinctly the central idea of the poem and "love's philosophy' itself:

Nothing...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:05:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the briefest terms, the poem is saying that everything is connected;...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the briefest terms, the poem is saying that everything is connected; everything mingles with everything else. Nothing stands alone without a relation to something else. Like "no man is an island" and no flower is not dependent on a bee, and no bee is not dependent on a hive, and no hive is not dependent on a queen, and no queen is not dependent on her workers and on and on and on. And the same goes for non-living things: the spray from the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:27:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Love's Philosophy" written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is about a love...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["Love's Philosophy" written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is about a love that is unrequited. Upon reading the poem, the impression is given that it is he who is unsatisfied by love. The object of his love is not returning the sentiment. Throughout the poem Shelley expresses the fact that nature finds a way to be in perfect union, the rivers meet the ocean and the mountains meet the heavens. After several lines which express how the elements of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:25:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can someone offer a summary of the poem, "love's philosophy"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can someone offer a summary of the poem, "love's philosophy"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:32:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There's not really that much to this poem.  It's a straight-forward...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There's not really that much to this poem.  It's a straight-forward love poem.
In the first stanza, he's saying that there are lots of kinds of things that mingle together.  Some examples of this are rivers and oceans and the winds.  So, he says, if these things can mingle, why not him and his beloved.
In the second stanza he moves on to kissing and hugging.  Lots of things kiss.  Mountains kiss heaven.  Waves hug each other.  But all...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:18:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the summary of the poem "Love's Philosophy"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the summary of the poem "Love's Philosophy"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:11:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Both of the poems "To a Skylark" and Ode to the West Wind" are by Percy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Both of the poems "To a Skylark" and Ode to the West Wind" are by Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Both these poems celebrate an aspect of nature, a higher order of existence that the poet compares to man's limited life on the earth.  
In "To a Skylark," the poet hears the song of this beautiful unseen bird who sings in flight, adding a soundtrack to nature that draws the poet's attention to the majesty of the world around him.

"Hail to thee, blithe...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 10:46:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compare and contrast Shelley's "To a skylark" to Keats' "Ode to the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast Shelley's "To a skylark" to Keats' "Ode to the Westwind".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 05:59:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's "soul meets soul on lovers' lips" because there are two lovers and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's "soul meets soul on lovers' lips" because there are two lovers and two souls, not just one. You must have a second soul to meet the first soul, otherwise it would be "soul meets soul on lover's lips."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:32:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is correct? "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips" or "Soul meets soul...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is correct? "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips" or "Soul meets soul on lovers lips" or "Soul meets soul on lover's lips"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:07:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[is there any background for shelley writing his poem 'love's philosophy'?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[is there any background for shelley writing his poem 'love's philosophy'?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 6 May 2009 13:11:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what are the biblical,historical and mithological allusions in england...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what are the biblical,historical and mithological allusions in england in 1819 by P.B. Shelley]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 5 May 2009 03:47:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shelley uses personification in that last stanza.  The Cloud is the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shelley uses personification in that last stanza.  The Cloud is the child of both the Earth and Water. Then as the rain clears, the Cloud once again is reborn.  But Shelley again uses the human experience of childbirth when he uses the words "Like a child from a womb."  This human connection appeals to the emotional senses in the reader.  He also gives the oceans and shores "pores," as if they, too, are human.

"I am the daughter of Earth...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:41:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does P.B.Shelly use his skill of sensuous description of natural...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does P.B.Shelly use his skill of sensuous description of natural phenomena regarding, 'The sky after the rain' in his poem "Cloud"?
plz help me...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:32:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[show how shelly decribes the sky after rain in the poem cloud.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[show how shelly decribes the sky after rain in the poem cloud.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:38:38 PST</pubDate>
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