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**TOPIC: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley.**

Many scholars believe that Mary Shelley's husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, actually had a significant role in the writing of //Frankenstein.// Percy Bysshe Shelley was a famous poet in his own right and some passages in //Frankenstein// sound more like Percy Shelley's style of writing than Mary Shelley's. Unfortunately for readers, neither Mary nor Percy ever revealed the depth of Percy's involvement in Mary Shelley's classic novel. However, by looking at Percy's poetry, you should be able to find some similarities between ideas, style, and techniques of Percy and Mary Shelley.

Read the following four poems and respond to what you see as similarities between Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry and //Frankenstein//. You can comment on any similarities that you feel are relevant. You may also read a biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley here. He was quite an "interesting" fellow.

1) "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"

2) "Lines: the cold earth slept below"

3) "Ozymandias"

4) "To Night"