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Mutability Analysis
Author: Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley Type: Poetry Views: 1816
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We are the clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost forever:
Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.
We rest.--A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise.--One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond foe, or cast our cares away:
It is the same!--For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.
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This poem talks about how Shelley was a mutant with super natural powers. He wanted to join the X-men but settles for the Justice League. Tough Luck!
| Posted on 2009-05-16 | by a guest
Even though the poem begins pessimistically there is an ironic change in the way Shelley views mutability.
On one hand, because we as humans mutate and change we eventually, like clouds, disappear.
On the other hand, we are all individuals, even though we may be forgotten, we are unique. There is no replica.
Even when we rest (sleep) there is no constancy because of dreams. When we are awake, one thought leads to another, in this way our thoughts are always shifting. Each change in emotion signifies a shift.
Each day wears on and soon is replaced by the next.
The only thing that remains constant, as Plato said it a long time ago, is change.
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| Posted on 2009-04-11 | by a guest
Even though the poem begins pessimistically there is an ironic change in the way Shelley views mutability.
On one hand, because we as humans mutate and change we eventually, like clouds, disappear.
On the other hand, we are all individuals, even though we may be forgotten, we are unique. There is no replica.
Even when we rest (sleep) there is no constancy because of dreams. When we are awake, one thought leads to another, in this way our thoughts are always shifting. Each change in emotion signifies a shift.
Each day wears on and soon is replaced by the next.
The only thing that remains constant, as Plato said it a long time ago, is change.
| Posted on 2009-04-11 | by a guest
Shelley, even though he was betrayed, disappointed, etc, didn't let that change his outlook on love and faith. He understood that he had to keep hope, or else be swallowed by that dark abyss--sadness, depression...what he refers to in the first stanza as night.
| Posted on 2007-03-29 | by a guest
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