Nature is revered and regarded as spiritual and heavenly ...

ODE TO A SKYLARKHail to thee, blithe Spirit!Bird thou never wert -That from Heaven or near itPourest thy full heartIn profuse strains of unpremeditated still and higherFrom the earth thou springest,Like a cloud of fire;The blue deep thou wingest,And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever is revered and regarded as spiritual and bird expresses a spontaneous overflow of emotion this is a Romantic shelley (the speaker), the skylark is not even a bird; it is a series of metaphors(similes). Perhaps shelley recognizes that we never really know Nature for what it is; we see it from a human perspective (and we often personify it).In the golden lightningOf the sunken sun,O'er which clouds are bright'ning,Thou dost float and run,Like an unbodied joywhose race is just pale purple evenMelts around thy flight;Like a star of Heaven,In the broad daylightThou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight -Keen as are the arrowsOf that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we har

ODE TO A SKYLARK Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert - That from Heaven or near it Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. ... To Shelley (the speaker), the skylark is not even a bird; it is a series of metaphors (similes). Perhaps Shelley recognizes that

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