Short Summary of "To A Skylark" by P. B. Shelley || Learning The Easy Way
Summary of to a skylark by P. B. Shelley
A
skylark soars into the sky singing happily. As it flies upward, the clouds of the evening make it invisible, but its song enables the poet to follow its flight.
All the earth and air is filled with its song. The unseen but still singing
skylark is compared to a poet composing, a maiden in love, a glowworm throwing
out its beams of light, a rose in bloom diffusing its scent, and the sound of
rain on twinkling grass. Songs sung in praise of love or wine or music played
for a wedding or a celebration cannot compare in loveliness with the song of
the skylark.
What
accounts for the happiness of the song of the skylark? It is free from all that
gives pain to man. It knows what lies beyond death and has no fear. Even if man
freed himself from hate, pride, and fear, man's joy would not equal the
skylark's. The secret of its capacity to sing so happily would be an
incomparable gift for the poet. If the skylark could communicate to Shelley
half its happiness, then he would write poetry that the world would read as
joyfully as he is listening to the song of the bird.
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