2. o Born August 4, 1792… Died July 8, 1822 o Percy was Born into a wealthy family in Sussex, England o Percy drowned while sailing at age 29. o Percy produced gorgeous lyrical poetry quintessential of the Romantic Era. o Percy is perhaps best remembered for the mythical poemPrometheus Unbound and for Adonais, an elegy to his friend John Keats. Nothing of him that doth fade. But doth suffer a sea- change Into something rich and strange Nothing of him that doth fade. But doth suffer a sea- change Into something rich and strange

3. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me 2 stanzas. 1 1 2 2 4 lines in each stanza because of indentation

4. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHABABCDCDEFEFGHGH Rhyme scheme: The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse Approximate rhyme: a rhyme that has the same end sound.

5. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me Imagery: visually descriptive or figurative language

6. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me Mountains cant kiss. Waves cant clasp or hold onto each other. Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

7. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

8. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me

9. o www.poetryoutloud.org www.poetryoutloud.org o http://www.online- literature.com/shelley_percy/ http://www.online- literature.com/shelley_percy/