1. Metaphors and Shelley's Notion of Poetry
... that covers what lies beneath, so our knowledge about reality is abstruse and, since men perceive reality indirectly, its access has to be mediated through metaphors. According to Shelley, there are two kinds of mental action, reason and imagination. The former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another, however produced, and the latter, as mind ... as well in "Sonnet (Lift not the painted veil which those who live)". By saying that poetry is the expression of imagination, Shelley acknowledges the fact that poetry is the consequence of an activ...
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