"The Revolt of Islam" is crystallization of Shelley’s concepts of aspirations, philosophy and aesthetic. The protagonist in this poem is Laon who was an orator, arousing his compatriot to overthrow the Islamic tyrant; his lover Cythna also launched the uprising of women together. Tyrant was overthrown, and Leon start benevolence never put a tyrant to convince the masses. Tyrant comeback, killing people, burned to death, Laon and Cythna. Back to life after the death of two heroes; take a boat into the temple of God, freedom and beauty. Poem, Shelley to the symbolic language and techniques to write a fantasy of revolutionary romanticism. In the prologue, the Shelley to fight on behalf of the snake and the eagle of the war between good and evil, a symbol of human development in the history of the struggle of light and dark. Snake defeated, falling into the water, a symbol of good temporary failure. A bright girl like spring to save the snake free and Eros, with Shelley voyage. Them into a dazzling palace and see the good and evil, the twin wings elf dance performances, see the god of the world, he told the poet: the two great wizard (Laon and Cythna ) has returned This shows the power of human, do not despair, we must be good at understanding! poem can be drawn from this conclusion: the poet from the disappointment after the French Revolution to disentangle, to explore a better future ideal world and the evolution of human thought , man has the power to draw optimistic conclusions of the final victory over evil forces.

The poems are full of symbolic meaning, and things are a symbol of the natural and social forces, the poem represents the beauty and lofty halls of the ideal world, the ship is away from the ugly reality leading to ideal carrier, on behalf of the ugly reality and the beauty of the curtain barriers between the ideal, that is temporarily obscured shadows of the evil forces of truth and light. Cythna symbol of freedom and love, Laon is not only an ideal world, the symbol of the great God, but also their own idealized image of Shelley, Shelley, I am the first person often appears in the poem. Laon and Cythna are ther idealized heroes in Shelley’s mind, the poem symbolizes the world of the future change, democracy and freedom will be achieved, will the bright future of mankind!