By: Kent Refuerzo, Hanz Tristan Uy, PJ Manacpo Percy Bysshe Shelley By: Kent Refuerzo, Hanz Tristan Uy, PJ Manacpo

More about Mr Shelley He was born on the 4th of August 1792 in England. He is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, and epic poets in the English language. Unfortunately, Shelley did not experience fame in his lifetime. His works grew more popularly after his death. His political and social thoughts as well as some of his writings influenced some of the most influential people like Mahatma Ghandi, and Karl Marx.

The Poems To Be Reported On To:___ (Kent) O World, O Life, O Time (PJ and Hanz) Memory (PJ and Hanz)

O World, O Life, O Time By: Hanz and PJ

Facts About Romanticism Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

Vocabulary Heap-noun - a large, disordered pile of things Slumber- intransitive verb - sleep

On whose last steps I climb, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY O World, O Life, O Time O World, O Life, O Time, On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before, When will return the glory of your prime? No more, O never more! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight— Fresh spring and summer and winter hoar Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight VOCABULARY: Hoar – A greyish hue

LITERARY ANALYSIS O World, O Life, O Time, On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before, When will return the glory of your prime? No more, O never more! In this stanza, Shelley explains his final moments in life and how he will never return to the peak of his health.

Literary Analysis Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight— Fresh spring and summer and winter hoar Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more, O never more! Here Shelley talks to the Summer, Spring and Winter and tells them to move him with grief, and no longer with joy.

Literary devices In this poem, Shelley used APOSTROPHY in the line “O World, O Life, O Time.” Here he detaches himself from reality and ends up addressing an imaginary character in his speech. In this poem, He addresses the World, Life, and Time. He also used METAPHORS when he referred to the journey of life as an ascending ladder in reference to his phrase “on whose last steps I climb” The last literary device he used was REPETITION as you can see when he repeated the line “ No more, O never more” on both the ends of his two stanzas. This is also where he emphasized the depressing TONE of his poem.

To:___ By: Kent Refuerzo

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To ---- BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. Odours, when the sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved’s bed. And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

Literary Analysis “Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. Odours, when the sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.” In this stanza, Shelley explains how if a part of something is gone, the memory of it will continuously linger on because it once played an important part in that thing’s life. He is probably talking about the love of his life.

Literary Analysis “Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved’s bed. And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.” In this stanza, Shelley talks about how when you die, everything you are, you leave in your deathbed. And he talks about when his love left him, he never felt love again./ his feeling of love never awakened again.

By: PJ Manacpo and Hanz Uy Memory By: PJ Manacpo and Hanz Uy

Memory Percy Bysshe Shelley Rose leaves, when the rose is dead Are heaped for the beloved’s bed And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Literary Devices Both the poems “To:__” and “Memory” are part of “Music, When Soft Voices Die” "Music, When Soft Voices Die" is a poem made up of two stanzas with four lines in each. The rhyme scheme is AABB, even though the first rhyme of the poem isn't perfect (at least, not to modern day ears). This poem is written in trochee foot. In poetic meter, a trochee, is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, in English, or a heavy syllable followed by a light one in Latin or Greek. In this respect, a trochee is the reverse of an iamb.

Music when soft voices die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX3WoZbI5lI