#odetothewestwind

[amarnathtalukdar]

#pbshelley #odetothewestwind #ozymandias https://www.instagram.com/p/CDdDrNQnVQe/?igshid=105cj3da6vuh2

[paradiselostix]

«Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.» ("To a Skylark") ~ «O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?» ("Ode to the West Wind") ~ #BornOnThisDay: #PercyByssheShelley (1792-1822), English poet, essayist, and a major figure of English Romanticism, a radical in his poetry as well as in his philosophical, political, and social views, considered as one of the most influental poets of all time and an important figure of Romantic movement, both in literary and philosophical terms, whose passionate search for meaning in nature, personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language, such as "Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind", "Love's Philosophy", the lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound, and the long narrative poem The Masque of Anarchy. He was the husband of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. ~ Best-known works: • "Mont Blanc" (1816, ode) • The Revolt of Islam (1817, long narrative/political poem) • "Ozymandias" (1818, sonnet) • "Ode to the West Wind" (1819, ode) • "Love's Philosophy" (1819, lyric poem) • The Masque of Anarchy (1819/32, long narrative/political poem) • Prometheus Unbound (1820, verse drama) • "To a Skylark" (1820, ode) • Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821, pastoral elegy) • "Music, When Soft Voices Die" ("To—") (1821/24, lyric poem) ~ «"... Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."» ("Ozymandias") ~ #birthday #Ozymandias #OdeToTheWestWind #ToASkylark #Adonais #PrometheusUnbound #TheRevoltOfIslam #MontBlanc #TheMasqueOfAnarchy #LovesPhilosophy #MusicWhenSoftVoicesDie #EnglishRomanticPoetry #book #books #bookstagram #shelley #bibliophile #reading #read #booklove #poet #poetry #bookoftheday #instabook #Romanticism #literature #booknerd #classics https://www.instagram.com/p/B0uu63bAncr/?igshid=1mvl373t642jz

[differentdonutnickelpeach]

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth! #pbshelley #odetothewestwind #snowday #abstractparadise (at Gulmarg Ski Resort)

[scarlettsaunders]

"The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave"

From Ode To The West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley