Mont Blanc (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- First Published: 1817
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Nature, Poetry or poets, Rivers or waterways, Consciousness, Ice, Mortality, Mountains, Water, Glaciers, Snow
The Poem
Mont Blanc is a meditative and descriptive poem in five unequal stanzas of irregularly rhymed iambic pentameter. As with several of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems, scholars still dispute important details regarding its text. An early title specifies that the poem was conceived “at the extremity of the vale of Servoz”; a later subtitle has it “written in the vale of Chamouni,” which is a trough-like valley at the base of Mont Blanc. Mont Blanc itself is a stupendous sight as one comes upon it suddenly around a bend of the ravine through which the river...
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