In a putative invocation of Plato’s cave allegory, this poem describes a “legion of wild thoughts” that “rest… in the still cave of the witch Poesy” and “seek… ghosts of all things that are.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Percy Shelley poem that opens by comparing the “feeble brook” of “human thought” to “the everlasting universe of things,” which is said to “flow through the mind” and “roll its rapid waves.”
ANSWER: “Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni”
[10h] In a scene from this poem by a different author, the speaker is said to have “grieved” after having “first beheld” Mont Blanc, since “a soulless image on the eye” had “usurped upon a living thought / That never more could be.”
ANSWER: The Prelude, Book VI (by William Wordsworth)
[10e] One of seven spirits declares Mont Blanc “the monarch of mountains” by virtue of its “throne of rocks,” “robe of clouds,” and “diadem of snow” at the beginning of this author’s verse drama Manfred.
ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon, Lord Byron]
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