The scorner of the ground -

This phrase is used in Shelley's poem, "To A Skylark", published in 1820. Shelley uses this phrase to suggest the skylark, who belongs to the skyhight and who is an inhabitant of the imaginary world made by the poet himself.

           Actually the poet, Shelley was a revolutionary poet. He always hated this mundane materialistic world and wanted to arrive in a new world full of joy and happiness. In this poem, the poet makes a difference between these two worlds. The poet shows the skylark as ' the blithe spirit' and 'unbodied joy', in whose mind there is no sign of dissatisfaction and restlessness. This is because where the skylark lives is full of peace. And put mundane world is a world of sorrows and sufferings. So the skylark, the inhabitant of the peaceful world hates this mundane world. Here 'ground' refers to mundane world.