Like most romanticists, Shelley, Byron, and Keats tried to connect with the reader by employing specific literary techniques. In doing so, each poet's unique voice can be heard in the poems, but their poetry also relies on the reader to interpret and comprehend the message. How did they do this? Cite at least three of the following literary techniques in your answer: simile, enjambment, punctuation, conceit, apostrophe, paradox, personification, alliteration. Your answer should be at least 250 words.

Answer:The poets of the next generation shared their predecessors' passion for liberty (now set in a new perspective by the Napoleonic Wars) and were in a position to learn from their experiments. Percy Bysshe Shelley in particular was deeply interested in politics, coming early under the spell of the anarchist views of William Godwin, whose Enquiry Concerning Political Justice had appeared in 1793. Shelley's revolutionary ardour caused him to claim in his critical essay "A Defence of Poetry" (1821, published 1840) that "the most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry," and that poets are "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." This fervour burns throughout the early Queen Mab (1813), the long Laon and Cythna (retitled The Revolt of Islam, 1818), and the lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound (1820). Shelley saw himself at once as poet and prophet, as the fine "Ode to the West