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P.B Shelley's Ozymandias

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                                               P.B Shelley wrote "Ozymandias" in 1817, and it was first published in the  Examiner  in 1818. It first appeared in book form in Shelley's  Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems  (1819). In the poem, the narrator relates what someone else described to him about pieces of a broken statue lying in a desert. Once a great symbol of power and strength, the statue has become a metaphor for the ultimate powerlessness of man. Time and the elements have reduced the great statue to a pile of rubble. "Ozymandias" describes an unusual subject matter for Shelley, who usually wrote about Romantic subjects such as love, nature, heightened emotion, and hope. But Shelley was also a political writer, and "Ozymandias" provides insight into the poet's views on power, fame, and political legacy. Ultimately, ...
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JOHN KEATS(ROMANTIC POET)

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John Keats  (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal Poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized by an exuberant love of language and a rich, sensuous imagination, all of which contrasts sharply with the tragic circumstances of his short life. Keats succumbed to tuberculous at age 26.Keats is included among the six major Romantic English poets, which in addition to Shelly included William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron. Life English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died when Keats was eight; his mother died of tuberculosis six years later. After his mother’s death, Keats’s maternal grandmother appointed two London merchants, Richard Abbey and John Rowland Sandell, as guardians. Abbey, a prosperous tea broker, assumed the bulk of this responsib...
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Lost Generation

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                                      LOST GENERATION  we all know that World War first is known as the great war because it change the entire world. Lot of blood shed happened during World War first and different country reacted in different ways.War poets  are the poets from Britain who are shocked to see the horrifying effects of  the World War first.  The same kind of attitude was shown by the American writers the first world war on the great War Chains Americans attitude in ways that was not anticipated after having witnessed death destruction on an unparalleled scale mainly young Americans filter sense of shock after looking at this pointless death  and barbaric practice during the first world war. This scope of Writers who shown their discontent at the first world war who felt this illusional unfamiliar post war world war are known as lost generation. The term l...
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