Essay - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Representative Poetry Online (2006), Percy Bysshe...

Percy bysshe Shelley

In Representative Poetry Online (2006), Percy Bysshe Shelley emphasized the importance and function of poetry in our lives. It is noted that in a Defence of Poetry, he claimed that ***** is not only a form of artistic expression, medium of language, or an activity of leisure and amusement. He explains how poetry not only shows what is beautiful, but m*****e importantly ***** is true.

Shelley also elevated ***** as a medium that has its own utilitarian *****s; particularly those that pertain to vital institutions in society ***** instigate change. Some of these institutions are in the areas of education, law-making, governance, and even religion. For example, the relationship ***** ***** and *****, specifically poems during the Romantic literature is reflected in two of Mark Blake's *****: The Little Black Boy and The Chimney Sweeper, taken from the website of Quotations.About (*****).

***** ***** Black Boy

***** mother bore me in the southern wild,

***** I am black, but O! my soul is white;

***** as an angel is the Engl*****h child:

But I am black as if bereav'd of light.

My mother taught me underneath a tree

***** sitt*****g down before the heat of day,

***** *****ok me on her lap and kissed *****,

And pointing to ***** east began to say.

Look on the rising sun: there God does live

***** gives his *****, ***** gives his heat away.

And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive

***** in morning joy in the noon day.

***** we are put on earth a little space,

That we may learn to bear the be*****s ***** love,

And ***** black bodies and t***** sun-burn***** face

Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

***** when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear

The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice.

Saying: come out ***** the grove ***** ***** & c*****,

And round my golden tent ***** lambs rejoi*****e.

Thus did my ***** say and kissed me,

And thus I say ***** little English boy;

When I from black and he from white cloud free,

And round the tent of God like lambs ***** joy:

*****'ll shade him from the heat till he can bear,

To lean in joy upon ***** fat*****rs knee.

And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,

***** be like him and he ***** then love *****.

The Chimney Sweeper ***** ***** thing in the snow,

Cry*****g "weep! *****!" in notes of woe!

***** are thy father ***** mother? Say!"

They are both gone up to the church to pray.

Because I was happy upon the *****h,

And smiled among ***** winter's *****,

They clothed me in the clothes ***** death,

***** taught me to sing the notes of woe.

And because ***** am happy and dance and sing,

They think they have done me no injury,

***** are gone to praise God and his priest and king, Who make up a he*****ven of our misery."

In these ***** poems,