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Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the greatest romantic poets of the early nineteenth century,His poem 'The Moon' is simply remarkable.This poem is an illustration of shelley's myth-making power.

The pale moon slowly rises in the eastern horizon soon after dusk and appears in its faded splendour.Parts of the moon gradually disappear from view as it slowly proceeds towards its phase of the new moon.So,it looks not only pallid but also thin.The comparison of the moon with a pallid,thin and dying lady brings out the poet's delicate inaginative response to nature.The journey of the moon acroos the sky has been mythically presented as the tottering steps of a pala,thin and frail dying lady moving out of her chamber.This image of the lady is complete with her appearance,movements and even the fine veil on her face.The couplets of the first four lines suit the melancholy mood of the poem.The second part of the poem has a odd construction,In a single-sentenced question the poet wants to know why the moon looks utterly pallid.He makes some wild guesses about the cause of its paleness.He imagines that the moon has a difficult task of climbing high in the sky.It has to gaze on the earth whole night in total isolation.Only the stars who are different from the moon are found in the sky.So,the moon feels tired and exhausted.Hence it looks pale and sad as well.

The first four lines of the second part rhyme alternately and the poem ends with a rhyming souplet.

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