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A thesis Presented for Bachelor Degree Shelley’s active and revolutionary Romanticism --Combination of Romanticism and Realism A Thesis Presented for Bachelor Degree ABSTRACT Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) is known as a great active and revolutionary romanticist. He has a lifetime of setbacks and frustrations. Even though his life is transient as the lightning flashes through the might sky, he makes constant resistance to injustice, tyranny and darkness of society. He adopts poetical works as arms and horns to scatter his revolutionary ideas and appeal to the populace to rise up against the sordid life and predicts the ideal future of mankind. His revolutionary spirit and optimism impress me a lot. Marx ever calls him a thorough revolutionary through top to bottom. Through extensive and meticulous research, I find that the craft of Shelley’s active and revolutionary romanticism is combination of romanticism and realism. The core of imagination and vision comes from the reality. After this fact is established, it helps to well understand his intention and the social significance of his artistic creation. In this thesis, first, I cite the criticism of other reviewers on Shelley’s active and revolutionary romanticism. Then I illustrate the meaning of active romanticism, by comparison with the passive romanticism. Afterwards, I explain the origin of active romanticism Then, I discuss the revolutionary spirit presented in his poetry when romantic imagination and symbolism are combined with the reality. Therefore we establish the fact that the artistic craft of Shelley’s revolutionary and active romanticism ids the combination of romanticism and realism. In addition, Shelley joins in the revolutionary activity learned a lot of experience from the real life and struggle and inspires by the natural sight. He finds his expression in the poems Ode to the West Wind, Song to the England, England 1989. Then I want to show the presentation of Shelley’s revolutionary and active romanticism in his main works by combination of romanticism and realism, namely Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam, The Mask of Tyranny, Prometheus Unbound. These works have something in common that Shelley reveals and criticizes the reality, and predicts the future to express his love for the ideal society. For Shelley’s active and revolutionary romanticism, romanticism mingles with realism as the form and the contest, the body and the skeleton. My hope is that my tastes and yours will coincide at least some of the time. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I should like to express my gratitude and appreciation to my supervisor for his valuable advice and criticism on points of details. He has given me a lot of inspiration and helped so much to improve the thesis. With the help of him, I learnt how to write a thesis. I am most grateful to him for his patient and meticulous instruction.