The French Revolution (1789), fostering the thought of freedom and individuality, had an undeniable effect on the Romanticists. And poetry enabled most of them to express their sense of rebellion in an aesthetic manner. The Romantic poet Percy Byssche Shelley (1792-1822) was among the aspired supporters of the French Revolution in its initial stages. The aim of the study is to explore the rebellious nature of Romanticism which is very well reflected within Romantic aestheticism in Shelley's "Ozymandias" (1817), "Ode to the West Wind" ( For this, the study will refer primarily to Shelley's own essay "A Defence of Poetry.
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Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız (2017) studied this question.