Wednesday, February 11, 2015

I think that the poem “Love’s Philosophy” is important. It is important because it makes one think about how we are not alone in this world. It gives earthly actions that show a relation to love and then goes on to tastefully describe how everything and everyone in the world are connected/one. Each stanza correlates the work of the Earth, the simplicity of it, and how human interaction can be the same. There is also a strong use of personification. For example, “See the mountains kiss high Heaven, And the waves clasp on another…” The personification makes the poem easy to understand in the sense that it provides a mental picture of these actions causing one to think of the relating human action. It also explains how natural our interactions with one another can and should be.  For example, “The fountains mingle with the river and the rivers with the Ocean…” then goes on to say, “In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?” This means that if nature can simply/naturally go about and mingle and mesh with each other, then it shouldn't be hard for us to do the same. Love is what binds us all. It is what binds our aura to this earth so that we can try to live in harmony. Shelley writing this poem is sort of like a reminder that if nature can continue and go on naturally, we can do just the same and it’s our love that will keep us here.

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