Love's Philosophy by Percy Shelley

‘Heaven’

Religious Imagery

→ insincere: manipulating a woman into falling for his seduction by making it seem pure/ as if it is God’s will context: ironic/satirical as Shelley was an atheist

‘law divine’

Hyperbole

→suggests that God will punish her is she refuses- a sense of obligation, fear-monger

Enjambment + Repetitive structure

→ relentless in his pursuit of this woman; obsessive

→ seems rehearsed and in genuine

→ makes it seem like there is an endless list of reasons why she should sleep with him

Volta: natural→celestial imagery

→increasing desperation- use of God to seduce her despite God symbolising purity