Lord Byron and Percy Shelley -- upon seeing the two names together in one poetry packet, I was taken back to the days when we studied Wordsworth and Khan. Together, Byron and Shelley worked to renew the Romanticism Era. While Byron was poorer than Shelley, they both had similar and nearly identical writing styles. The two focused on finding a deeper meaning in nature and the subject served as a focal point for the majority of their poems. Although the two chose to focus on the same subject, they often had different ideas of the ways of nature.
Lord Byron grew up in a relatively poor household for his time, but no matter what sort of rough childhood he endured, he was able to make a living through poetry. Byron perceived nature as a force that was never-ending. Byron successfully produces vivid descriptions of what we see in nature by putting them into words that further epitomize nature as a whole.
Unlike Byron, who approaches nature more realistically, Shelley takes a more imaginative approach. The tone in his poem Ozymandias seems to contradict with his happy life that he has lived up to that point; sounding rather brash and depressed. The point of this dark tone, though, is to truly convey the true darkness of the world and those who inhabit it.
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