Shelley a Rebel, Revolutionary and a Utopian Dreamer:
Shelley was a true-born kid of the revolution. The spirit of that revolution found its expression in Shelley�s poetry. Throughout his life he dreamt of a brand new society, a brand new world, completely free from tyranny and oppression. He was a dreamer of dreams and the sole fervid singer of the revolution. Unlike Wordsworth or Coleridge, Shelley never abandoned the ideals of the revolution, though he was appalled by the dictatorship of Napoleon. Shelley only experienced the revolution at second hand through the books of the writers as Rousseau and William Godwin etc. When he looked back, all he could see was the flame of revolution still flickering in spite of the terror, war and disease. In his preface to �The Revolt of Islam�, he pointed out that the wanted to kindle in the bottom of his readers a virtuous enthusiasm for liberty and justice, which neither violence nor prejudice, can ever wholly extinguish among mankind. In another allegorical work �Prometheus Unbound� Shelley...