1. Metaphors and Shelley's Notion of Poetry
... quot;. By saying that poetry is the expression of imagination, Shelley acknowledges the fact that poetry is the consequence of an active mental process –an adjustment of the impressions that stimulate our mind–, which implies that imagination is a creative faculty, as well as the fact that "man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven" ( ... Ibid.). Precisely, observe that in the sestet of Shelley's sonnet, which is an ... inverted sonnet divided into two parts: a sestet and an octave, we are presented with a series of external impressions,...
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