The Blogging Community: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Besides this blog, another great Percy Bysshe Shelley informational site is called Percy Shelley (Click to visit) by Dulce Roque, Kailee Phillips, and Lauryn Hartung. I appreciated that this site offers a great variety of information ranging from Shelley’s poetry, to detailed information about his life. 

I found their post titled “Percy Shelley’s View on Death” to be most interesting because it gives a very informational explanation of how Shelley perceived death as not only a pity, but of beauty because it continues the life cycle. This posting had the largest effect on me because thinking about waking up on a new day as one day closer to death, is a very mind-twisting thought. This post is extremely relevant to Shelley’s work because he was often finding ways to write about the natural circle of life and explaining the significance of the season autumn as it shows a natural death to being reborn and life. It also brings almost every point Shelley tried to convey in his work by explaining the natural beauty, the life cycle, and the many ways nature works to continue life in different forms.

They also have a video on their blog that is the same as on this blog, that article is called, “Percy Shelley; A Closer Look.” The summary takes a more personal understand and I really admire when it talks about “ozymandias” and what this word truly means. This posting gives a more personal look at the facts of Shelley rather than a complete factual summary, and I enjoyed reading it. The video is great for a detailed look at Shelley’s life and poetry and is not a boring video to watch, like most biographic videos.

By examining this blog, one can grip a great understanding of Percy Shelley as an author, a husband, a romantic poet, and a human being. It shows a great deal of Shelley’s personal beliefs and the many different aspects on nature he brought out in his poetry. This blog provides a great introduction to Percy Shelley’s life by giving a complete background and history of his life in a form that is easy to read and in great detail.