Shelley and the Breathless Sleep. A Study of the Images of Death and Religion in Percy B. Shelley's Poetry

Abstract

This essay examines Shelley's way of using the concept of consciousness beyond death in his poetry. The focus is to see whether the way he talks about the afterlife contradicts his atheistic beleifs and the argument is that the way he uses death in his poetry does not indicate that he believed that there is a possibility of any consciousness beyond physical death.