To a Skylark

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"To a Skylark" is a renowned Romantic lyric poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that celebrates the skylark as a symbol of pure, transcendent joy and poetic inspiration.

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instanceOf English poem
Romantic poem
lyric poem
addressedTo a skylark
author Percy Bysshe Shelley
comparesTo a glow-worm
a maiden in a tower
a poet
a rose
compositionPeriod 1820
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1820
firstPublishedIn Prometheus Unbound
surface form: Prometheus Unbound and Other Poems
form ode-like lyric
genre lyric poetry
influenceOn later Romantic and Victorian nature poetry
language English
linesPerStanza 5
literaryDevice apostrophe
imagery
metaphor
personification
simile
literaryMovement Romanticism
literaryPeriod Romanticism
surface form: Romantic period
mainSymbol skylark
meter irregular meter
notableFor celebration of spontaneous song
exploration of the gap between ideal and real
numberOfStanzas 21
openingLine Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
partOf Percy Bysshe Shelley bibliography
rhymeScheme ABABB
setting natural landscape
sky
subject a skylark in flight and song
symbolizes ideal poetic song
pure, unearthly joy
spiritual transcendence
theme contrast between human sorrow and ideal joy
imagination
joy
limitations of human experience
nature
poetic inspiration
transcendence
tone ecstatic
meditative
reverent

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Percy Bysshe Shelley notableWork To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote To a Skylark