1. Sentence structure and ‘that’
The problem with Percy Bysshe Shelley that concludes him as an ineffectual
angel lies not in his ability as a poet but in the scope in which he looks for truth.
Shelley started out like what Blake and Wordsworth did with ordinary things and all
three probed into the significance behind them. The turning point(?) is that his
imagination is applied to a metaphysical existence that to look at it when one is
unable to perceive the relation between the seemingly sensual experience and the
abstract notions one is haunted with aerial words too elusive to be grasped(Sentence
Structure). To see Shelley as he is, a Chinese proverb would be a good reference for
his poetic process in three stages, “See a mountain as a mountain. Then see it as not a
mountain. And finally see it as a mountain again.” In other words, things can be seen
as what the nerve (word form)system of the eyes inform the brain, what your
imagination presents, and your adaptation of that imagination to your own
understanding(?). In the following passages, I would like to try analyzing Mont Blanc
through this triple procedure of seeing in hope of making a clear apprehension(usage)
of Shelley’s endeavor. (tone; thesis statement?)
(example: The turning point, as it were, came at the last show of the season when
conversation among waiting mothers came round to the mess in the car park.
Rev 1: The reason why Percy Bysshe Shelley is named as an ineffectual angel
is not his ability as a poet, but his enthusiasm for truth. Shelly, like what Blake and
Wordsworth did, started out his works with ordinary things, and probed into the
significance behind them. When looking at a metaphysical existence, Shelley applies
his imagination to it for avoiding aerial words from which one is unable to perceive
the relation between the seemingly sensual experience and the abstract notions
because of the elusion to be grasped. There is a Chinese proverb which allows people
to see Shelley as he is, “See a mountain as a mountain. Then see it as not a mountain.
And finally see it as a mountain again”. In other words, things can be seen as three
different levels—what the nervous system of the eyes receives and then informs the
brain, what one’s imagination presents, and the translation from that imagination to
one’s apprehension. In the following passages I would like to analyze Mont Blanc
through this triple frame of seeing in order to manifest Shelley’s endeavour.
Rev. 2:
The problem with Percy Bysshe Shelley that concludes him as an ineffectual angel
lies not in his ability as a poet but in the scope in which he looks for truth.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley’s problem, that he is usually seen as an ineffectual angel in
his poetic career, lies not in his ability as a poet but in the scope in which he looks for
truth.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley tends to be seen as an ineffectual angel in his pursuit of
poetic truth, which should not be attributed to his lack of ability as a poet but to the
impossibly immense scope in which he looks for truth.
(lack of proper focus) Shelley started out like what Blake and Wordsworth did with
ordinary things (Blake too, with his “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”?)and all three
probed into the significance behind them.
-- Shelley starts his pursuit, like Blake and Wordsworth, with probing into the
significance behind ordinary things.
The turning point(?) is that his imagination is applied to a metaphysical existence that
to look at it when one is unable to perceive the relation between the seemingly sensual
experience and the abstract notions one is haunted with aerial words too elusive to be
grasped(Sentence Structure).
-- His imagination, however, is then turned to a metaphysical existence, to which one
can only relate one’s sensual experience with words too abstract or aerial to grasp.
To see Shelley as he is, a Chinese proverb would be a good reference for his poetic
process in three stages, “See a mountain as a mountain. Then see it as not a mountain.
And finally see it as a mountain again.”
-- A Chinese proverb can serve to describe the three stages of his poetic process: that
he “sees a mountain as a mountain first, sees it not as a mountain, and then finally he
sees it as a mountain again.”
In other words, things can be seen as what the nerve (word form)system of the eyes
inform the brain, what your imagination presents, and your adaptation of that
imagination to your own understanding(?).
-- In other words, Shelley appreciates and presents things in his poetry as they are
perceived by the senses, or, more specifically, as they are transmitted through the
eyes’ nervous system to his brain. He then allows his imagination to transcend the
physical, describing in abstract terms things beyond his sensual perception until
finally he is able to use again the physical elements to convey those abstract ideas.
In the following passages, I would like to try analyzing Mont Blanc through this triple
procedure of seeing in hope of making a clear apprehension(usage) of Shelley’s
endeavor. (tone; thesis statement?) (Response to the first statement?)
-- These three-stage development of poetic imagination, as I will show, is delineated
in “Mont Blanc.” Through analyzing this poem, I will argue that Shelley is far from
being an ineffectual angel; rather, he is . . . (e.g. a human striving beyond his human
limits while knowing how to stand firm on his ground.)