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The contrast of Shelly’s three poems 　　【Abstract】The paper mainly analyzes three poems of Shelly’s， One Word Is Too Often Profaned， Love’s Philosophy， Mutability. Although they have different themes， they all relate love， his comprehension of love as he grows. 　　【Key words】theme； rhetorical device； rhyme 　　In the thesis， I would like to choose three poems of Shelly’s， namely One Word Is Too Often Profaned， Love’s Philosophy， Mutability， which talk about love and life. Percy Bysshe Shelly is one of the prominent figures of the English Romanticism and was famous for his rebellious spirit against English political and social values. The theme of his poems changes from the love， nature to the changing course of human life. The three poems are about the love and life， but they show Shelly’s different attitudes on love and life， I mainly comparative them from the perspective of theme， rhyme， rhetorical devices and so on. 　　From the perspective of theme， the first poem， One Word Is Too Often Profaned， which written in 1822， it was intended for Jane Williams to express Shelly’s deep and genuine devotion for Jane. Shelly used words “one word， one feeling one hope” to stand for his love towards Jane. He says the word has been so often profaned or misused that he will not use it to describe the relationship. He then uses the word “pity” to express that Jane is dearer than any other woman. Then Shelly chooses the word “worship” to describe the nature of his devotion. And in the real world， it also applies. Pure relationship is equal to desperation. The second poem， Love’s Philosophy， uses different natural scenes； fountain， river， ocean， etc， to show his love. He first uses his colorful words to describe nature and concludes the rule that all things are in couple. For example， river mixes with ocean， sunlight clasps the earth. And then he spreads to the relationship of human beings and points out love is natural relation from the heart. In the second part of the poem， h