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Question: Poet P!.B!.Shelley was Physically Disabled !?
Was Percy Bysshe Shelley handicapped or physically challenged !?
My English teacher says that the poet of the poem 'Ode to the West Wind' was handicapped whereas it is nowhere mentioned in the poem!.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
No!. He had no physical disability!. Your teacher is mistaken!. What did she actually say!? Shelley had Physical Disability!? No, no!. not at all!. As said by one carlisle above, he was a very attractive young man!. And do you know what is written on Shelley's grave!.!.!.on his tomb stone!?

"Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange"

These lines are from Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest'!. Shelley was a great poet!. Infact one among the very best of all time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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No Anjali!.!.!.!.!.!.shelley had no problems at all!. He was a nice young man!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com