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    The document summarizes and analyzes Shelley's poem "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty". It discusses several stanzas of the poem: Stanza 5 critiques religion, comparing prayers to useless magic and a church to Plato's cave, where people learn shadows rather than true things. Stanza 6 is autobiographical, where Shelley recounts seeking ghosts as a boy but finding Intellectual Beauty through meditation. He pledges service to Beauty. Stanza 7 discusses how Beauty revealed itself to Shelley's youth but he now seeks its influence in his coming years for peace.

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    Hymn to intellectual beauty (By P.B Shelly) Stanza 5-7

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    The document summarizes and analyzes Shelley's poem "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty". It discusses several stanzas of the poem: Stanza 5 critiques religion, comparing prayers to useless magic and a church to Plato's cave, where people learn shadows rather than true things. Stanza 6 is autobiographical, where Shelley recounts seeking ghosts as a boy but finding Intellectual Beauty through meditation. He pledges service to Beauty. Stanza 7 discusses how Beauty revealed itself to Shelley's youth but he now seeks its influence in his coming years for peace.

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    Hymn to

    Intellectual Beauty
    P.B SHELLEY
    Stanza 5
    Explanation:
    The fifth stanza continues the atheist and
    philosophical critique. Shelley refers to his
    youthful experiences with religion, which now
    seem like useless prayers or even magic
    (denouncing the “poisonous names” of saints
    who ignored his prayers).

    The “listening chamber” of a church building


    is compared with Plato’s “cave” in the Republic,
    the place where people learn the names of
    things by identifying their shadows, without
    ever gazing on the real things themselves.
    This stanza has an autobiographical character. Here
    Shelley relates a youthful experience which we must
    accept as authentic. Having heard as a boy that it was
    possible to communicate with ghosts and the spirits of
    the dead, Shelley made every possible effort to verify
    this belief.

    He visited empty halls, caves, ruins, and forests in star-


    light in order to find ghosts and spirits, and to hold
    communication with them, but it was all in vain. He had
    been told that he would find ghosts in such places, and
    he visited these places with fear in his heart. He recited
    the incantations which were believed to have the power
    to summon ghosts. But no ghosts or spirits appeared
    before him.
    Then comes a thrilling experience! In the course of
    his deep meditations on the nature of this life and on
    human destiny, he was startled by a visitation. It was
    the sweet time of spring when winds blow to wake up
    all sleeping things and when birds and blossoms make
    their appearance.

    Suddenly he became aware of the presence of


    Intellectual Beauty. He shrieked and clasped his
    hands in ecstasy. His perception of the Spirit of Beauty
    was an exquisite and rapturous experience.
    Stanza 6
    Literary Devices
    Explanation:
    This is also an autobiographical. On becoming aware
    of the existence of Intellectual Beauty, Shelley pledged
    himself to its service. He vowed that he would dedicate
    himself and his faculties to the worship of Intellectual
    Beauty and all it stands for. And he has kept the vow

    . To support this claim, he can, with his heart beating


    fast and with tears flowing from his eyes, call to
    testimony the spirits of a thousand hours during which
    in the past he devoted himself to the service of
    Intellectual Beauty. He calls upon the spirits of those
    hours to emerge from their silent tombs and to appear
    as witnesses on his behalf.
    Those hours will testify that, whether he was burning
    the midnight oil and poring upon books or he was
    enjoying the pleasures of love, he never became
    forgetful of the existence of Intellectual Beauty.

    Those hours would testify that, whenever he felt happy,


    it was because he felt the hope that Intellectual Beauty
    would liberate this world from the forces of superstition
    and tyranny. He always believed that the awful Spirit of
    Beauty would confer upon human beings benefits which
    cannot be described in words
    Stanza 7
    Literary Devices
    Explanation:
    When the hour of noon has passed, the day becomes
    more solemn and peaceful. With the coming of
    autumn, we become conscious of a harmony which
    were not experienced during summer and which belong
    only to autumn.

    For the poet, too, the hour of his noon has passed, and
    the season of his summer is over. He would now like to
    experience the solemnity and serenity of the evening,
    and the harmony and the lustre of autumn. These he
    can experience only with the help of Intellectual Beauty.
    Intellectual Beauty revealed itself to him when was still
    young and passive.
    He would now like Intellectual Beauty to exert its power
    upon him and to make the coming years of his life
    peaceful. He is worshiper of Intellectual Beauty and
    a worshiper of every shape in which Intellectual Beauty
    appears. The magic of Intellectual Beauty has a deep
    hold on him. It is because of the influence of this
    beautiful Spirit that he loves all mankind and that he is
    free from arrogance and self-conceit.
    Thank You

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