1. Metaphors and Shelley's Notion of Poetry
The poetic "I", then, is veiled by the experience of a third person and, by doing so, Shelley is emphasizing both the impossibility to directly perceive reality and the possibility to grasp it through the act of writing. ... Even though, for Shelley, the interaction between the external and the inner world is partial because human perception limits the interaction itself, it is a dialogic process: an interaction between the external world and the inner world, reality and inner-self, rather than a unilateral activity from the poet to the exterior. ... Shelley explains that a poet an...
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