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The cry against the destruction of the exceptional individual The Poet's admitted sympathy for the Youth's extraordinary potentialities does not constitute sympathy with his Student to Poets 41 course of action, for the Youth abandoned his associations with his fellow men as friend, lover, father, citizen of the world, and benefactor of his country. Of the three classes of men that Shelley mentions in the Preface, the worst are those with neither human love nor vision; the best are those who combine a vision of the ideal with a compassion for limited human beings.
But, still more, they are the human outcry of pity and fear at the fact of death. The Poet is not sentimentalizing the Youth when he laments that "many worms/ And beasts and men live on ... "-the cry against the destruction of the exceptional individual The Poet's admitted sympathy for the Youth's extraordinary potentialities does not constitute sympathy with his Student to Poets 41 course of action, for the Youth abandoned his associations with his fellow men as friend, lover, father, citizen of the world, and benefactor of his country.
37-38). xxxv); and a "dying poet . . , a youth with hoary haira fleeting guest/Of our lone mountains," 8 gave her books and inspired her ideals. " and describes her dream-vision encounter with a "winged youth" who wore "the Morning Star," we see another example of how the ideal, a projection of the human imagination 54 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (to be described in Epipsychidion as the "soul out of my souf'), takes the form of the opposite sex. xliii). This joy caused her to leave her isolated musing and return to the city to serve her fellow men.