Analysis of Natural Image in Shelley’s Poetry

Analysis of Natural Ilmage in Shelley's Poetry李娜/包头轻工职业技术学院国际学院[Abstract] Shelley had a profound affection on nature. Thus, natural image played an important rolein Shelley’s poetry. It not only prov ided the particular characteristics but also contained the deep .feelings of Shelley' s thoughts. Natural Image was a carrier of the poet' s feeling. The poet usedthe objective image to convey his abstract thought in order to get the vivid expression. This essaywould study the natural image in Shelley’ s poetry.[Key words] natural image; Shelley; poet[摘要]雪莱深爱大自然。因此，自然意象是雪莱诗歌中的重要元素。这些自然意象不仅体现了其诗歌的独特性，并且包含了雪莱深刻的情感。自然意象是诗人情感流露的载体。诗人用客观事物生动表达其抽象情感。本文主要研究了雪莱诗歌中的自然意象。[关键词]自然意象;雪莱;诗歌.1 A brief introduction of P. B. Shelley’s life and worksPercy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 in a wealthy family, as a child he was good at independentthinking and began to like literature. He wrote that he wanted to sit in white cloud car, wentforward, towards the future of the ideal. There was sunshine which was bright and beautiful withno exploitation, no hatred, everywhere was full of happiness and freedom. Unfortunately, in 1822Shelley suffered wind and rain when boating in the Italian coast, and drowned when he was only29 years old.Shelley was one of British romantic poets in 19" century and his poetry occupied an importantposition in the history of British literature and even in the world li terature.He loved nature and advocated that there should be more works to eulogize nature in literature.He opposed the restoration of one’s personality and emotion of the classical disciplines andadvocated the liberation of individual character to express their true feelings. The same asother English romantic poets, Shelley was very fond of describing nature. He found the real realitywasn’t what Plato' s concept of the world, but rather the nature and the people of the world.2 The concept of image and natural image in Shelley’ s poetry2.1 The concept of imageImage is the basic characteristics of poetry. In poetry creation， life experience mustsublimate into literature， the process of experience is in fact the process of image. Image isthe unity of subject and object which consists of the factors of emotional and rational and soon. It is a multilevel，full of rich content and expression form; Image, as a very aestheticmeaning category， worth our constantly thinking and discuss ion.Unique and excellent image will instantly illuminate our mind, opening our sensual andintellectual observing the nature of things. Image creation as a special spiritual product ion,its outstanding characteristic is to make the strong subjective factors penetrate into artisticcreation.2.2 The natural image in Shelley' s poetryOne of the common characteristics of romantic poetry was to express emotion by nature. Usingnature as his main theme to express his thoughts and feelings and then paid closer attentionto the progress of humanity played a vital role of Shelley’ s life. Shelley’ s poem revealedthe darkness of the society and sang praise to the battle h中国煤化工reedom. Hestruggled against the tyranny of the spirit and ideal andIMYHC N M H G happiness.He was good at using nature to achieve his ideal. His praise of nature was the praise of theideal heart. He argued that social reality was too dirty and hoped that his soul could getpurification in nature. So he gave vigor to nature and made it free like a bird song freedomin the sky. Nature to Shelley was the symbol of power and freedom. Shelley’ s work of naturepart was the most splendid chapter, such as Ode to the West Wind and so on.The natural image in Shelley’ s poem was various and colorful. For example， in Ode to theWest Wind,“west wind”was a colorful and meaningful image captured by the poet. Shelley tookthe west wind as the center to create a series of natural phenomenon. He wrote the huge changeof natural images such as seeds, moss, flowers, leaves, forests, cloud, hail, heavy rain, thunderand lightning， sea, sky， mountains, plains and so on under the influence of the west wind. Theintension of the natural image in poetry and the lyrical of the poet was integrated, momentum,and foresight. In addition, the poem had many profound metaphor, which contained a rich contentin the context of western culture. For example in the first section of the poem, Shelley usedthe characters and events in the bible to describe the natural images. Wintering seeds had beencompared to the cold body in the tomb. In spring, however， it grew up with the new bud, likea group of grazing sheep，giving color and fragrance full of mountains and plains.“ seedwasassociated with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in the western readers; While“ grazingsheep”would make people think of the shepherd that dedicated to the salvation of Jesus Christto sacrifice himself to save the world. Also it was the reminiscent of the pastoral idyll. Tosum up，Shelley was good at creating specific nature imagery by metaphor, symbol and descript ionwhich were colorful， exquisite， fable3 ConclusionNatural image in Shelley’s poetry had an important natural aesthetic value, which reflectedthe lacking of natural aesthetic perspective in the contemporary literature. Shelley was a poetsang for future. In the contemporary context，to re-read the Shelley’ s poem, carefully tastednatural imagery in his poetry would give us more profound revelat ion.References:[1] Bergman, David & Epstein, Daniel Mark. 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