Love's Philosophy

Love's Philosophy-Percy Bysshe Shelly

Compare to When We Two Parted

Extra Detail:

• Philosophy means knowledge.
• 2 Stanzas
  • Represents the two of them
  • Rigid 8 line form
• Enjambment
• Persuasation 
  • The narrator  uses personification to show the natural examples giving, recieving and benefitting from love - this emphasises his point that love itself is natural and neccesssary
• ABAB structure
• Structure
  • Tightly structured to be pursuasive 
  • Using majority of each stanza to build up evidence to support his argument that everything in nature is supposed to come together.
  • Rhetorical questions
    • Emphasises the contrast between nature and the narraotors situation
• Masculine rhyme or single rhyme - only the last syllable of the words rhyme (e.g destroy, enjoy, plane, explain)
• Feminine rhyme or double rhyme - two syllables at the end of the words whyme (e.g label, table, mingle, single)
  • He uses both of these to add to the idea of merging man and woman together.

Context:

• Romaticism 
  • A dislike to urban life and embraces the natural world
  • A love of the supernatural
  • Use of ordinary everyday language
  • (e.g "Fountains"-natural springs, "Law divine"-a law of God that connot be changed by man)

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