Two Rebellious Men

Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley were two very good friends who epitomized the Romanticist Era. The two men were surprisingly very rebellious in nature. Shelley got kicked out of college for writing that atheism was a necessity and Byron just left college and led a “lady’s man’s” life. Although very rebellious, the two men were geniuses in poetry.

The four poems written by these two very, very, very good friends focused on nature and the way mankind disrupts this nature. She Walks in Beauty, written by Lord Byron, is ironic considering how rebellious he tended to be. This poem shows beauty which is a key aspect of Romanticist poetry. The second poem given written by Lord Bryon, Apostrophe to the Ocean, is very scenic and has a lot of deep truth. Byron argues that society is ruining nature. Nature is said to be all powerful because buildings and society cease to be when the shoreline starts. The importance of nature is another important part of Romanticism.

Again, Shelley argues his political ideas in Ozymandias. In this short poem, Shelley rebels against the concept of society and basically says that man is ruining nature. The last poem was harder to understand but its overall praising the West Wind. The nature in this poem is obvious, with the scenes of falling leaves and rubble. The narrator wishes to be swept away by this wind and would like to be gone with the wind in spirit. Shelley’s two poems are Romanticist because they speak out against society and the disruption that man has caused.