In Percy Shelley's To a Skylark, he captures the carefree nature of a bird - the skylark. The speaker depicts the distinguishing characteristics of a Skylark as beautiful and happy. These inferences are taken from the speaker's own translation of the skylark's striking song. The bird also seems to have a God like effect on the reader. The speaker's attitude and relationship toward the bird is one of praise or worship. Rhetorical devices and mechanics such as metaphors, diction, imagery and tone are all used to create these effects.

How the skylark is seen, is ironically not at all. "like a star of Heaven/ In the broad day-light/ thou art unseen, - but I hear thy shrill delight" (Line 18-20). The speaker states that the bird is beautiful, yet he also implies that he never can actually sees the bird. The quote refers to stars. Stargazing is a...