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Hymn To Intellectual Beauty

In "Hymn to Intelletc
ual Beauty", Shelley describes his realisation of the power of human intelletc
. In seven carefully-constructed stanzas, he outlines the qualities of this power and the e etc
it has had on him, using the essential themes of Romantic poetry with references to nature and the self.


In the first stanza, the concept of the "unseen Power" – the mind – is put forward, and Shelley states his position on the subjetc
. Throughout the stanza, extensive use is made of profluent similes. "As summer windsÂ… | Like moonbeamsÂ… | Like huesÂ… | Like cloudsÂ… | Like memoryÂ…"; these intangible elements of nature and, significantly, memory (which here is a human quality) is aiming to create the air of this Power as something beautiful that is at one with nature and yet is transient and somehow beyond human reach and grasp. Similes such as "Like hues and harmonies of evening" are used to state that this Power has an equilibrium, an......


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