Intellectual Beauty

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Lets find off if youre on the right track * * * Home > SparkNotes > numbers Study Guides > Shelleys rime > sing to skilful knockout content * Context * abstract * Themes, Motifs &038 Symbols * Summary and Analysis * Hymn to happy dish aerial * Ozy gentlemans gentlemandias * England in 1819 * Ode to the watt Wind * The Indian serenade * To a Skylark * Study Questions * gain Reading * How to Cite This SparkNote sparknotes Shelleys Poetr y Percy Bysshe Shelley Get this SparkNote to go lt foregoing part Themes, Motifs &038 Symbols Next Section > Ozymandias &8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212&8212- Hymn to Intellectual Beauty Summary The loudspeaker says that the ghost of an invisible Power floats among tender beings, now and again visiting human wagonmanifested in summer gatherds, or moonbeams, or the retention of music, or approximately(prenominal)thing that is precious for its mysterious grace. Addressing this life cadence of Beauty, the speaker asks where it has gone, and why it leaves the world so desolate when it goeswhy human hearts can feel such anticipate and kip d confess when it is present, and such despair and abhorrence when it is gone.He asserts that religious and superstitious notionsDemon, Ghost, and nirvanaare nothing more than the elbow greases of someone poets and wise men to justify and deport their results to the olfactory property of Beauty, which alone, the speaker says, can happen grace and truth to lifes unquiet dream. Love, Hope, and Self-Esteem come and go at the whim of the Spirit, and if it would only tolerate in the human heart for constantly, quite of coming and going unpredictably, man would be immortal and omnipotent. The Spirit inspires lovers and nourishes thought and the speaker implores the spirit to remain even by and by his life has ended, fearing that without it death will be a dark reality. The speaker recalls that when he was a boy, he sought for ghosts, and travelled through caves and forests looking for the departed deathly hardly only when the Spirits shadow fell across himas he mused deeply on the upsurge / Of life outdoors in the fountdid he experience transcendence.At that moment, he says, I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ardor He then plighted that he would have his life to the Spirit of Beauty now he asserts that he has kept his vowevery joy he has ever had has been linked to the hope that the awful fairness would free the world from slavery, and complete the reefer of his words. The speaker observes that after noon the day becomes more solemn and serene, and in spill there is a lustre in the sky which cannot be found in summer.The speaker asks the Spirit, whose power descended upon his youth a akin(p) that truth of nature, to supply calm to his ahead lifethe life of a man who worships the Spirit and every form that contains it, and who is climb up by the spells of the Spirit to fear himself, and love all humankind. Form Each of the 7 long stanzas of the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty follows the same, highly regular scheme. Each line has an iambic rhythm the first off quartet lines of each stanza are written in pentameter, the fifth line in hexameter, the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh lines in tetrameter, and the twelfth line in pentameter. The syllable pattern for each stanza, then, is 555564444445. ) Each stanza i s rhyming ABBAACCBDDEE. Commentary This lyric hymn, written in 1816, is Shelleys earliest focused attempt to incorporate the Romantic precedent of chewing with nature into his own aesthetic philosophy. The Intellectual Beauty of the meters title of respect does not refer to the beauty of the sound judgement or of the working intellect, nevertheless rather to the ingenious idea of beauty, abstracted in this song to the Spirit of Beauty, whose shadow comes and goes over human hearts.The poem is the poets geographic expedition both of the qualities of beauty (here it always resides in nature, for example), and of the qualities of the human beings response to it (Love, Hope, and Self-esteem). The poems abut is doubly figurative or associative, in that, once the poet abstracts the metaphor of the Spirit from the particulars of innate(p) beauty, he then explains the workings of this Spirit by comparing it back to the very particulars of atural beauty from which it was abstrac ted in the first place Thy light alone, like mist oer mountains driven Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart This is an inspired technique, for it enables Shelley to illustrate the stupefy experience of natural beauty time and again as the poem progresses, but to push the particulars into the background, so that the focus of the poem is always on the Spirit, the abstract intellectual ideal that the speaker claims to serve.Of course Shelleys atheism is a famous part of his philosophical stance, so it may come out strange that he has written a hymn of any kind. He addresses that foreignness in the third stanza, when he declares that label such as Demon, Ghost, and Heaven are merely the record of attempts by sages to explain the effect of the Spirit of Beautybut that the effect has never been explained by any voice from some sublimer world. The Spirit of Beauty that the poet worships is not supernatural, it is a part of the world. It is not an independent entity it is a responsive competency within the poets own mind.If the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty is not among Shelleys very greatest poems, it is only because its offer falls short of the poets frightful powers simply cantoning the abstract ideal of his own experience of beauty and declaring his fidelity to that ideal hearms too simple a task for Shelley. His most important statements on natural beauty and on aesthetics will take into account a more complicated idea of his own connection to nature as an expressive artist and a poet, as we shall see in To a Skylark and Ode to the West Wind. Nevertheless, the Hymn remains an important poem from the early period of Shelleys maturity. It shows him working to incorporate Wordsworthian ideas of nature, in some ways the most important root word of early Romanticism, into his own poetic project, and, by connecting his idea of beauty to his idea of human religion, making that theme explicitly his own. < Previous Section Themes, Motifs &038 Symb ols Next Section > Ozymandias pass away a fan on Face have got watch us on Twitter care Feedback More HelpAsk swing Marm Help with grammar, writing, and your papers Shelleys Poetry meaning Board Ask a dubiousness or post an answer. Download the SparkNote In PDF and ebook format on BN. com take a study break Dont lose your cool at graduation or someone will draw an angry picture of you and put it on SparkNotes. Will you be awesome when youre older? Or just kind of meh? Take our test Going to station camp this summer? Amazing presently stop bragging about it. Who should win loads of cash? 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