Poem Analysis – Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Introduction
The poem “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” was written in the year 1816 by a knowledgeable writer Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem was written in summers during the time when Shelley along with his wife was visiting their fellow writer and other friends. The poem contains seven stanzas, and Shelley praises the mystical power of touching the world and human thought, the power that makes everything beautiful: “The beauty of dust, given by your use”. Shelley tries to describe this mystical power, which, like the changing seasons, cannot be captured and fully understood. Stanza five to seven describe Shelley’s childhood and her first sense of the beauty of nature. Shelley believes that this “beauty of knowledge” is the source of her poetic inspiration, but she complains about her arrival and her movement and feels that her bond with this strength is stronger when she was a child. In this poem, he remembers the spirit of dedication of his life in the United States and encourages him to return to him, because he shows that he loves nature and his compatriots. Furthermore, this paper will entail an in-depth analysis of the poem for better understanding.
Analysis
The title of the poem “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” shows Shelley’s spiritual connection to nature through beauty. Hymn usually has religious or spiritual connotations, and Shelley’s poem says that he prayed on his call to the “beauty of the gods” as a deity: “Only your light – like a fog in the mountains or at night the music – or a stream midnight moonlight, to give life and restless dreams of grace and truth.” Shelley said that the child is linked to spiritual domination, but said: “While I was still a boy, I’m looking for ghosts and accelerates… I called the toxic names of our young people, I did not hear this.” For Shelley, an open atheist, this silence was traditionally perceived as a silence by the Christian God. Moreover, it has been observed that the landscape of the Alps is the Shelley freshman and very beautiful. He was deeply moved and the poem he wrote to Li Junta was created under the influence of emotions that prevented me and even cried. Thanks to the Shelley Alps, who abandoned Christianity, he finally found one that could worship God sincerely. The beauty of worship is Shelley’s new religion, and it is important that he calls his poem as a hymn, which is used almost exclusively in religious poetry. The landscape of the Alps is the Shelley freshman and very beautiful. He was deeply moved and the poem he wrote to Li Junta was created under the influence of emotions that prevented me and even cried.
In stanza, V Shelley admits that as a child, the shadow of the intellectuals suddenly falls on him when he seeks spiritual reality (mainly through the reading of the gothic novel). He screamed and shook hands. As a result of this experience, he tells us in the fourth quarter that he swore he would dedicate his “strength/strength to you and you” and that he kept the vote. This experience left him with the hope that the “spirit of beauty” “will free this world from obscure slavery”. In this section Shelley, apparently, combines two great interests: love for beauty and love for freedom. Furthermore, it can be stated that the basic idea of the “hymn of the beauty of knowledge” is that there is a spiritual force that has nothing to do with the material world and the human mind. This force is not known to mankind, but its shadow to the “other world that is constantly evolving twenty wings/summer that spread from flowers to flowers”, and with a constant vision of the heart and visited the face of each person. When it disappears, it will leave “our state, this sad, desperate tear, empty and desolate”. Shelley does not know why he calls it “the unknown and terrible” intellectual beauty, the visitor is uncertain, but he believes that if he would support “the glorious state of railway company” in the heart of man, then people will be “immortal and omnipotent.” However, because of the spirit of beauty, visiting the world and people’s hearts in this irregular way, Shelley begged her god instead of praising him. It is still far and inaccessible.
Conclusion
In the end, he came to the conclusion that he wanted the spirit of worship or God to be more abstract than God or Gods. On the contrary, it is human imagination, the strength of oneself and others. After reflection and prayer Shelley has reached this point in the last verses of the poem: “Therefore, let your strength as a natural truth in my passive youth, return in my way, is to worship as each module that contains, that right, your spells are obligatory, they are afraid of you and humanity. There Shelly realizes that thanks to your imagination and the intellectual combination of beauty and tranquility and openness reminded him of his first meeting with so-called spirits or children with an open mind in his “passive youth.” He concludes that, according to him, “adoring” beauty is freedom of imagination.
