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megan94
megan94
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High School - 10th Grade

How does Shelley desribe "the Sky after the rain" in his poem "The Cloud" using his skill of sensuous description of natural phenomena?

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Posted by megan94 on Tuesday April 7, 2009 at 8:55 AM and tagged with cloud, description, the cloud.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    eNotes Editor

    Shelley uses the following lines:

    For after the rain, when with never a stain
    The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
    And the winds and sunbeams, with their convex gleams,
    Build up the blue dome of Air -- 
    I silently laugh at my own cenotaph
    And out of the caverns of rain,
    Like a child from the womb, live a ghost from the tomb,
    I arise, and unbuild it again.


    You can see that the sky is described as a "pavillion" (great hall), and one that the rain has emptied. The sky is a "blue dome" and the poet/speaker treates the entire world as a site of rebirth.

     

     

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    Posted by gbeatty on Wednesday April 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM