Like Coleridge and Wordsworth, Shelley and Lord Byron were great friends. They encouraged one another as well as provided one another with constructive criticism and bounced ideas off each other. They shared many of the same ideals, including freedom from the chains of society and tyranny. Like all Romantic poets, they shared a deep love for nature, and their ideas were revolutionary.
In Byron’s poems, his political views are conveyed. Lines such as “there is a society, where none intrudes…” and “man marks the earth with ruin-his control,” shows his disillusionment with the governments and their hand in a citizen’s every-day life. Such unhappiness transpired into action on Lord Byron’s part. He actually died while training Greek soldiers during their revolution against Turkey in the 1820s. Nature takes the spotlight in many of his poems. He vividly writes of “pathless shores,” and “lonely woods.” He was also an atheist, something which got him kicked out of college. This in itself was a taboo subject during that time, but he writes freely of “even from thy slime/ the monsters of the deep are made.” Such ideas were indeed revolutionary.
Shelley possessed many of the same techniques as his colleague Lord Byron did such as love of nature, freedom, etc. He was a dark brooding man, and such conceptions contributed to his tragic hero persona. In my opinion, his poems had more imagery than Byron’s. The rhyme scheme altered between poems, but each of his poems had a definite scheme to it, unlike Byron’s.
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