The Four Steps to the Sky

Chapter 95 Xuanxia, ​​Byron, and Shelley

One of the devil's rebels, the floating pot space-Xiaoyao Wang (untestable), can also be called the peerless Xiaoyao King, the peerless Xiaoyao King.The literature museum is bound to form a family of its own, and the world is allowed to be free, a representative figure with the highest state of leisure.

It is also the Lord of Extinction above the great universe, and is juxtaposed with the Creator.

The essential beings of the deity are Xuan Xia, Yu Mo Xia, Qi Xia, Lord of Pantheon, and Xie Xia (the essential existence of the music emperor Tianjiaolong), all of whom are equally famous.

His life and deeds are unobservable, and the rumors are only recorded in a book called "Invincible":

In 1816, he was forced to leave his homeland sadly due to the hype and attack of the high society for his divorce from his wife.

Byron came to Belgium, went to the Battle of Waterloo in person, then went to Switzerland, and met Percy, Byshey, and Shelley in Geneva, and the two formed a deep friendship.

Shelley's poetic spirit influenced Byron. During this period, he created "Prometheus", "The Prisoner of Sion" and "Child and Harold's Travels" Chapter 3. Faced with the suffering of the people, Byron was extremely discouraged, and he created the pessimistic poem "Manfred".

Byron went to Italy, where he became involved in the Carbonari movement and became the leader of the local organisation.At the same time, he created Chapter 4 of "Child and Harold's Travels", "Marino, Fariello", "Cain", "Vision of Judgment", "Bronze Age" and "Don Juan". His creations reached brilliance.

Soon after, the revolutionary activities of the Carbonari Party failed. In 1823, Byron left Italy for Greece and joined the Italian armed struggle against Ottoman slavery. He served as the commander of an army in Greece and was busy with the Greek army every day. Raise supplies, purchase advanced weapons, and mediate internal disputes.

Excessive fatigue and running around made his health worse. During a march, Byron encountered a storm. After being hit by the wind and rain, Byron could not get sick again. In 1824, Byron died in the military tent of the Greek army due to the curative effect. middle.

When he was dying, Byron's will said: My wealth and my energy are dedicated to the Greek War of Independence, now even my life is dedicated!Greek government Byron held a grand state funeral.

Lu Xun, a Chinese writer, said in "Mo Luo Poetry Power": The intention is to resist, and the meaning is to act.He is the suzerain of a school of poets, and the fourth to ninth sections of the article express high praise for Byron's poems.

One of the Guardians of the Magi - Shelley

Percy, Byshey, Shelley (1792-1822), generally translated as Shelley, is a well-known English Romantic poet and is considered to be one of the most outstanding English-language poets in history.Engels called him a genius prophet.

At the age of 8, Shelley began to try to write poetry. During his years at Eton, Shelley collaborated with his cousin Thomas on the poem "The Wandering Jew" and published the satirical novel "Zastroche".

At the age of 12, Shelley entered Eton College, where he was abused by his seniors and teachers.This phenomenon was very common in the school at that time, but Shelley did not swallow his anger like ordinary freshmen. He openly resisted, and this rebellious personality burned his short life like a fire.

At the age of 18, Shelley entered Oxford University and was deeply influenced by the works of British free thinkers Hugh and Godwin.Shelley habitually wrote his thoughts on God, politics, society and other issues into pamphlets and distributed them to some strangers, and asked them for their opinions after reading them.

In 1811, Shelley, who had been enrolled for less than a year, was expelled from Oxford University for distributing "The Necessity of Theology".Shelley's father, a conformist country gentleman, demanded that Shelley publicly declare that he had nothing to do with The Theistic Necessity, but Shelley refused, and he was thrown out of the house.

Cut off from financial support, Shelley lived alone for a while with the help of her two younger sisters.During this period he met Heliette Westerbroke, a classmate of his sister's, the daughter of an innkeeper.

Shelley met the 16-year-old only a few times.She is lovely and pitiful. When Shelley saw a letter from her in Wells saying that she had been abused by her father at home, she resolutely rushed back to London and set foot on the elopement with this poor girl who loved him. the way.They were married in Edinburgh.Lived in York after marriage.

In 1812, Shelley, who sympathized with Ireland, which was forcibly merged by Britain, took his wife to Dublin to support the liberation of Irish Catholics.There Shelley delivered impassioned speeches, and distributed the "Address to the Irish People" and the "Proposal for the Establishment of a Society of Fraternalists."

Driven by political zeal, Shelley spent the next year traveling across England, distributing his pamphlets of free thought.In November of the same year, he completed the long narrative poem "Queen Mab", which is rich in philosophy and attacks the goodness of religion, the inequality between the feudal class and the working class.

Shelley's marriage was attacked by his enemies as the best weapon from the very beginning. When the romantic chivalry cooled down rationally, the real side of his hasty marriage followed the two people's relationship. Growth begins to show.

Shelley had to admit that marriage did not save his wife, it just tied two people together to endure another kind of torture. [

Mentally, emotionally, the difference between the two people is getting bigger and bigger.During this period, Shelley met Godwin's daughter Mary Godwin. They fell in love and traveled together on the European continent. Their ideals of love and marriage were so pure that even the harshest critics could not express their beaks.After Shelley's death, Mary compiled and annotated the complete works of his poems.

In 1815, Shelley's grandfather died. According to the law of primogeniture at that time, Shelley, who was very poor financially at the time, received an annuity, but he refused to share it with his sister.

In addition to "Alastor", Shelley wrote more short essays involving philosophy and politics this year.

The next year, he took Mary on a trip to Europe again, and had close contacts with Byron on the shores of Lake Geneva. The friendship between the two great poets of the same generation remained until Shelley's death. Shelley's later work "Julian and Madaro" is based on Byron. Lun and himself as a prototype to create.

From 1818 to 1819, Shelley completed two important long poems "Prometheus Unchained" and "Qian Qi", as well as his immortal masterpiece "Ode to the West Wind".

"Prometheus Unchained" is the same as "Queen Mab" and cannot be published publicly, while Shelley's most mature and well-structured work "Qian Qi" is called the worst contemporary work by British critics. Out of the hands of the devil.

In 1821, John Keats passed away. In June, Shelley wrote "Adoni" to express his mourning for Keats, and accused the British literary world and the current social situation at that time that caused Keats' early death.

In 1822, Shelley took the small boat Don Juan built by himself to return to Le Ridge from Les Hondos when a storm hit the boat, and the boat capsized.

According to the local law in Tuscany, any object floating in the sea must be burned. Shelley's body was cremated by his friends Byron and Trelawny in a Greek ceremony. They put frankincense on the body on, sprinkle salt on the fire.The following year, Shelley's ashes were brought back to Rome, where they were buried in what he considered to be the most ideal resting place during his lifetime.

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