Love Without Reciprocity: A Rhetorical Criticism of Emotional Betrayal in Shelley’s “Love’s Philosophy”
John Mark N. Saldivar · Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies · 2026
Aims: This study examines how persuasion operates in Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, engaging current Romantic and rhetorical scholarship that has traditionally read the poem as a celebration of natural unity and mutual desire. Rather than treating the lyric as purely...
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10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1308