Percy Bysshe Shelley

So yeah, I figured it might be that.

then so i got this hilarious animal halloween video from eleanor 2000 we'll play that i'm gonna cut uh youtube twitch and facebook after this game's over after final jeopardy um just so that i don't get any copyrights and there's something else that i wanted to play that would probably get us dinged so i'm waiting for those all right so we are almost there guys we're almost there we got one more left pick a category just kidding last one also on october 31st for 500. which romantic poet of ode to a nightingale was born on halloween in 1795 a lord byron b percy shelley c william wadsworth words william wordsworth i don't know why i said wadsworth um or d john keats let's see what you guys got Yeah, see, that was my thing, Eleanor 2000.

It's actually impossible because 360 means that it would actually come all the way back around.

That's a full circle.

Spelled wrong.

So I'm taking A for you because it's actually Harold with an O.

So you're picking A. um i hope you're hope you're right so all right what's the most we got we got a bunch of d's b's i think it's d again guys all right we're going with d for you guys the romantic which romantic poet of ode to a nightingale was born on halloween in 1795 a lord byron b percy shelley c william wadsworth words oh my god william wordsworth or d john keats so we're going with d d john keats all right i didn't tell you guys who i picked all right so you guys are kicking my butt should i give myself more points to make it interesting nah no i don't want to cheat guys i don't want to cheat all right i've seen a chicken turn its head 360. see that's terrifying maybe not terrifying but that's wild John is many things, but not a poet.

I wouldn't say that.

emphasizing Shelley's relationship with her mother, trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who passed away very early on in Mary Shelley's life, who penned, Mary Wollstonecraft penned, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Frankenstein, the 18 text, demonstrates her, Mary Shelley's, commitment to carrying forward her mother's ideals and places her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in a company of male poets, including Percy Shelley, her husband, and Lord Byron.

So a little bit about Mary Shelley.

This one, if you're playing this on video, we have a movie about Mary Shelley.

This is the part of the colonial discourse.

The dominant class can only prevail on the imperial subjects because they accept the standards which morality works against them.

Percy Shelley made some changes while editing the book.

One of the most significant changes appears to be in the form of the ending of the book.

Yeah.

You know, again, what's cool about The Bride of Frankenstein, the movie, is how that film opens up with Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley.

And that was the question I wanted to ask but forgot to ask because we got so caught up talking about what we were talking about.

But will Mary Shelley be an actual presence in the comic?

But Claire was not only completely and utterly obsessed with Byron, like half of Europe, but She was also pregnant with his child.

So she decided to follow him there, taking with her friends Mary and Percy.

They met up with Byron, and the final Geneva gang included Lord Byron, an 18-year-old Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and a man called John Polidori, who was Byron's personal physician.

Right.

A famously terrible summer, 1816, there was a storm.

And so Byron suggested a challenge that they should each write a ghost story to see whose was best.

Oh, nice.

It completely backfired on Byron because the famous poets, Byron and Percy Shelley, they didn't manage to finish anything.

So this is a great segue, actually, because...

As you know, Frankenstein, the story was birthed out of a ghost storytelling competition held between Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, the poet, and John William Polidori.

And the vampire, the first sort of acknowledged vampire tale emerges out of this ghost story competition, the same one that produces Frankenstein.

So there's that connection right from the beginning.

It's a dark and stormy night.

It's extremely Gothic.

So they sort of batten down the hatches in this house and all together they're reciting German ghost stories, but they're also reciting Coleridge's Christabel, which scares them so much that Percy Shelley runs screaming from the room.

Very likely under the influence.

Classical.

The Witch of Atlas is a major poetic work of the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, which was not published until after his death in 1824.

Percy dedicated the work to his wife, the famous author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.

In the poem, a mysterious mythical witch who lives in a cave creates a hermaphrodite by kneading together fire and snow.

you know what you think might be yours forever might not be and a calamity a a catastrophic sort of civilizationally cataclysmic event i'm not i'm certainly hoping that doesn't happen but i'm sort of alluding to is that what you believe is safe and secure in yours might not always be in history and if you look at the story the very tragic story of the Greeks this

is like Ozymandias isn't it by Percy Shelley the very famous poem about Ramesses just having this entire empire and thinking the evidence of it will survive for all time but

So if you look at the entire story of the fate of the Greeks and the Armenians, especially in Anatolia, and I mean there is actually a residual population in what is nowadays Pontus on the Black Sea coast, but all those Greeks who remained have basically converted to Islam and have become essentially Turkified Greeks and Muslim Greeks.

But everyone else, the Cappadocians, the Ionians, the Constantinople Greeks, the East Asian Greeks, et cetera, and the Paphlagonian Greeks have all been expelled to Greece.