George Gordon, also known as Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley are two well renowned romanticism poets from the 18th and 19th centuries, who also shared a friendship based on complete opposites. Gordon would “thrill” and “scandalize” his contemporaries after becoming a literary genius and famous. “Although Byron could be quite charming and friendly, his admirers insisted on associating him with the dark, brooding hero, impassioned by a cause, whom he so often described.” Because of this, he became the quintessential Romantic poet. In his poems “She Walks in Beauty” and “Apostrophe to the Ocean,” nature is a prevalent factor displaying his writing styles fluently and the Romantic style.
Percy Shelley and George Gordon were close friends, and their poems “reveal the strong influence of their mutual devotion.” Nature is the main component in Shelley's poems, as are radical politics, and social justice. Shelley had a rebellious nature and was a bit of a radical. In his poems “Ozymandias” and “Ode to the West Wind,” there was a great use of landscape and imagery. His poems were somewhat depressing at times, but would eventually switch to be happy. Death and dreaming are important subjects in “Ode to the West Wind,” and Shelley uses a lot of simile and imagery.
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