Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry."
in this excerpt, shelley compares poets to
because their words create images that
reveal truths about life.
all the authors of revolutions in opinion are not only
necessarily poets as they are inventors, nor even as their
words unveil the permanent analogy of things by images
which participate in the life of truth, but as their periods are
harmonious and rhythmical, and contain in themselves the
elements of verse, being the echo of the eternal music. nor
are those supreme poets, who have employed traditional
forms of rhythm on account of the form and action of their
subjects, less capable of perceiving and teaching the truth
of things, than those who have omitted that form.
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