Monstrosity in P. B. Shelley's The Triumph of Life through Akkerman’s Citadel‐to‐Garden trajectory

Abstract

Shelley's The Triumph of Life (1822) is filled with horrendous images such as a glorious sun, which gradually becomes dim and dark, "the beams that quench the sun," blindness, monstrous forms, and the hovering of "vampirebats before the glare/Of the tropic sun (ll. 102, 484-485). 1 Although written in 1822, the poem, like Lord Byron's" Darkness" (1816) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), somehow mirrors the eclipsed sun phenomenon of