This thesis is a study on the speaker's search for life-fulfillment as seen in
Shelley's Epipsychidion. This poem is one of the greatest poems of Percy Bysshe
Shelley. Also known as a great Romantic poet, Shelley pouts out his genius in this
wonderful poem. Believes mat Shelley's poem is worth-studying, the thesis writer
chooses Shelley and his Epipsychidion to be the poet and the poem of her study. In
beautiful passages, Shelley confesses his needs for life-fulfillment. As the thesis writer
finds that the necessity for life-fulfillment becomes many people's needs, she focuses
her study on mis subject Voicing this idea through the speaker of the poem, Shelley
describes the whole process of searching for his life-fulfillment The process starts
from the speaker's past life, continues to the present and is stopped by the envision of
the future. The searching for life-fulfillment is focused by the speaker to the Ideal
Beauty, an ideal model he has aeated in his mind possessing all the best characteristics
he does aot have. He believes that his search will be accomplished if he finds the Ideal
Beauty and unites with her. The searching needs a hard endeavour in life, and the
speaker finds only the embodiment of the Ideal Beauty, in Emily and in the Elysian
earth. The thesis writer, curious to know the process of mat search, analyzes the
speaker's struggle for' achieving his life-fulfillment using literary devices such as
metaphor and simile, symbol, and other figures of speech. Finally, she finds that the
speaker fails to get his life-fulfilled in Emily, since she is only the embodiment of the
Ideal Beauty, in this mortal and imperfect world. In the end, the speaker hopes through
his true love to get his life fulfilled later after death.
Author
• (11494020) FANNY AGUSTINA
Contributor
• (87-004) Sarah Limuil
• (97-036) Liem Satya Limanta
Publisher
Universitas Kristen Petra
Year : 2000
Subject
1. ENGLISH POETRY-18TH CENTURY-STUDY AND TEACHING
2. SHELLY, PERCY BYSSHE, 1792-1822. EPIPSYCHIDION-STUDY AND TEACHING
Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)
Language
English
Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 770; Fanny Agustina (11494020)
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