Abrams states that "no less characteristic of romantic theory is a set of alternative analogies implying that poetry is an interaction, the joint effect of inner and outer, mind and object, passion and the perceptions of sense" (51). ... By using a figure of speech that transfers meanings, Shelley projects language out of the "material" world in order to transcend the contingencies of life. ... Truth, Shelley suggests, lies beneath the veil, but only through poetic language can we have access to it.1 Shelley considers that reality encompasses all knowledge, bu...

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