The purpose of this dessertation is to deal with the problem and injustice in Shelley's earlier poetry, isolating here, especially, Queen Mab, his first longer political poetry, which envisons the millenial future to be established after the past and ...
The purpose of this dessertation is to deal with the problem and injustice in Shelley's earlier poetry, isolating here, especially, Queen Mab, his first longer political poetry, which envisons the millenial future to be established after the past and present injustices and expelled.
Queen Mab treats the "Grand and comprehensive Topics" the visions of "the Past, the Present, & the Future." Here Shelley's awareness of human history is a series of civilizations interspersed with vice, tyranny and injustice. Shelley was essentially an idealist armed with "a passion for reforming the world" by eradicating evil to usher in the good principle. He was an inspired poet who can say of hismself that "I always seek in what I see the likeness of something beyond the present and tangible object."
Shelley "had derived all that was valuable in knowledge and virtue from Godwin's Political Justice, the most important single influence among many works that molded his political thicking. He could foresee the coming of a new dispensation through the quiet workings of "Necessity" as asserted in the book.
For shelley "Necessity" was the Spirit of Nature, the absolute ruling force of the world. By Necessity he meant phsical, psychological, and moral determinism pivots around his poetry, philosophical or political, as it "administers to the effect by acting upon the cause."