Time(poems with explaination)

Poem Time with explaination

This poem is written by P.B.Shelley

About Author P.B.Shelley

P.B.Shelley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a great romantic poet.He was born on 4 August 1792.Shelley is perhaps best known for such classic poems as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud .The Masque of Anarchy,Queen Mab , Alastor,The Revolt of Islam,,The Triumph of Life, The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound .
His second wife Marry shelley was also a good poet. Other great poets in his age were Lord Byron,Leigh Hunt and Thomas love Peacock.
 Shelley became an idol of many poets including Robert Browning and George Bernard Shaw.He had four younger sisters and one younger brother. He received his early education at home. In 1802, he admitted the Syon House Academy. In 1804, Shelley entered Eton College.
Shelley possessed a great interest in science at college.Shelley made no friends at Eton.On 10 April 1810, he admitted in oxford university.His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi " in 1810. While at Oxford, he issued a collection of verses.In 1811, Shelley published his second Gothic novel, The Rosicrucian. 
The ’Ode to the West Wind" was written in the last years of his life. He died in a storm at sea after visiting Lord Byron, another great poet. Shelley’s works show hjs remarkable gift, his originality and his hatred of his oppression He was a great revolutionary poet of his time. .He died in 8 july 1822 at the age of  only thirty years. His life was short but his work was huge.

Time (Poem)

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, 
Ocean of Time,whose waters of deep woe 
Are brackish with the salt of human tears! 
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
 Claspest the limits of mortality,
 And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
 Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore; 
Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, 
Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea?

 Explaination of poem (Time)

 In this short poem P.B. Shelley explains the mystery of time in some of its aspects. The concept of time is very difficult to grasp and even more difficult to explain. It.is almost impossible to have a direct understanding  of time. It has to be understood by comparing and contrasting  it with things we know. Shelley imagines time as a limitless  and unfathomable sea. The sea of time is unmeasurable The entire mankind exists within the limits of It's ebb"and flow. It is cruel and treacherous. It brings sorrow, grief and death. It destroys everything from little mortal men to entire civilizations. 

What is time after all?

 Is it the familiar time of our every day life: hours, months, years?
 Is it human history? 
Or is it the history of the whole creation?
 Is it the invisible  force which creates and destroys? 
Time is all these and more. All we know is that life exists in time, and perishes because of time .These lines make up the poem "Time" written by P. B. Shelley. 
Time is imagined as a bottomless sea. Its waves are the years of human history. Time is a sea which contains in it great human sufferings. Human tears have made its water saltish. Time is a flood that has no shore. Its ebb and flow are the beginning and the end of mankind.
 It has destroyed so much life and property that it must be fed up  with it. But it always cries for more and more. Whatever is destroyed in it, it throws it to the shore. Its calm surface hides many storms in it. When it is stormy, it is most terrible . In fact, no one can trust and begin his voyage on such a deep sea.