Formal Study of the Greatest Poem of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Music, when soft voices die

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a great Romantic poet of early seventeenth century and he composed such a perfect works that most of them are short, about two or three stanzas. He was so influential that many of other generations poets imitate his poetic style, like Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Upton Sinclair, Karl Marx, and George Bernard Shaw. In this study, the poem of Music, when soft voices die is studied from formalist perspective. In formalism there is no attention to content and meaning, all concepts as words, style of lines, syntax are categorized on the base of form and shape. This article analyzes the poem line by line and utilizes or put to practical use of formalism categories.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley , the poem of Music , when soft voices die , Formalism school , and Russian Formalism