Seemingly simple is the sensitive plant

The poetic rhyme scheme that Shelley employs in "The Sensitive Plant" makes the poem seemingly simple to read. The aabb structure almost makes it sound like a nursery rhymes at first reading, and the fanciful imagery, and allusions to Greek mythology make it seem pleasant, simple, and archetypical of a poem discussing the beauty of nature. However, with all the other poems we have read so far in this class, the simplicity is only at the surface level. As you read further into the poem, you sense a struggle that Shelley is having with this world, and finding the exact meaning within in and the meaning of the beauty of nature. In the end, it almost seems that Shelley is basing all of these meanings, and the beauty of nature off perspective, claiming that one's own perspective of the world, like Shelley's, will shape the meaning as it is seen in the shifting meaning of the "sensitive plant."