Romantic poets introduced poetry that was innovative. Percy Shelly was one of those Romantic poets. Shelly wrote works spontaneously and free of rules. "Romantic poets used the theory of imagination which insisted upon its creativity, its use of nature to shape and inform and give value to life" (Chernik 327). Shelly embraced the essence of the Romantic period. The most influential and most notable characteristic of the Romantic poets was their love of nature, used to express their feelings. Romantics used nature as the main tool for describing their thoughts. The poets used symbols of nature to explore social problems. They used this symbolist poetry to show that objects had a more complex meaning than what they appeared to have on the surface. Shelly's Mont Blanc is a classic example of this. Mont Blanc is a poem in which the speakers understanding of nature matures in a society that has no appreciation of nature. Shelly's poem contains the characteristics that R!

omantics used to describe their love of nature.

The sight of Mont Blanc inspired Shelly. He used this sight

to express his evolution into appreciation of nature. Percy Shelly wrote Mont Blanc while he was standing over the Arve River in southeastern France. Romantic poets used the great creations of nature to explain their feelings. Poets usually choose objects of nature that were beautiful. Shelly uses Mont Blanc, Blake used Spring and Autumn, Robert Burns used a red rose, and Wordsworth used Tintern Abbey to explain their emotions. In the

My own, my human mind, which passively

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