Explore the ways in which sensibilities are presented in ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples' By Percy Shelley and ‘Lines Written on Early Spring' By William Wordsworth

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Thirty Sixth year - Byron + Ode to West Wind - Shelley

‘Ode to West Wind’ - Shelley + ‘Thirty-sixth year' - Byron

• passion about change → change in views about himself vs desire for change in the form of revolution

• Martyrdom/ legacy + reconfiguration of Europe - sea/sky, physical

• Attitudes to death (elegiac) vs extremities, components of change

Ode to West Wind - Shelley + London - Blake

• Outlining areas - Exploitation, Corruption, Oppression vs Process of change, Awakening Hope (spring) → energy and imminence

• Compasrison of the process of change with spacial elements and relationship

Skull cup - Byron + West Wind - Shelley

• Allusion to the natural world; Worm being symbolic - metonymy for death being too conventional vs Seasonal symbolism - hope, destruction & rebirth

• acceptance of suffering; Unorthodox, religion, provocation (Presbyterian church) - contextual link to his embrace of Christianity in italy? vs Quasi-biblical, alternative ommission being potent - wind allegory

• Morbid imagery; conventional associations with death, conteracting suffering with ?? suffering is contextualised within the cycle of change