TO A SKYLARK

TO A SKYLARK

                                                            -P.B.SHELLY

            P.B.Shelly is one of the major English Romantic poets.  “To a skylark” is splendid lyric of Shelly.  This ode expresses the poet’s feeling when he hears the joyous song of the bird. 

            The poet addressing a skylark says that it is a “blithe spirit” rather than a bird for its song comes from heaven.  The skylark flies higher and higher like a loud of fire in the blue sky.  Singing as it flies.  In the golden lightening of the sun, it floats and runs like a joyful spirit.  As it flies higher and higher the speaker loses sight of it.  But it still able to hear its voice.  Its voice comes down as keenly as moon beams which can be felt even when they are not seen.  The earth and art sing with the skylark’s voice just as “heaven overflows with moon beams”.

            Moon knows what the skylark is for it is unique.  Even rainbow clouds do not rain as brightly as the shower of melody of the skylark.  The bird, like a poet is able to make the word experience sympathy with hopes and fears.  It is like a loony maiden in a Paris tower who uses her song to soothe her lovelorn soul.  It scatters light like a golden glowworm.  Like a rose its scent bloc on until bees are faint with too much sweet.  The skylark’s song surpasses all music and all poetry.

            The speaker ask the skylark to tell him it’s sweet thoughts.  Compared to the skylark’s music, any music would see lacking.  He as for the objects of its happy song.  The skylark inspires Shelley to feel a frantic, rapturous joy that has no part of pain.  The skylark sings free of all human error and complexity and while listening to it’s a song the poet to feels free of those things finally he ask the bird to teach him half the gladness it nose for then he would overflow with “harmonious madness”.  Thus his song would be so beautiful that the world would listen to him even as his know listening to the skylark.

            To conclude, each stanza of Shelley’s “To a skylark” tends to make a single, quick point about the skylark of to look at it in a sudden, brief new light.