446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
The History of Literature
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The Percipient Observer, Part Two
The sublime is lightning, shocking the sky above the wind-swept moors. Or feeling your heart rising up into your throat as you stand small and stare at a thundering waterfall that could pound you into oblivion. The person reading them will always be different in a different frame of mind perceiving things differently or noticing different words. Our Percipient Observer will absorb the poem in a different way depending on the year, the month, the day, the hour, the second, in which the poem is being read. We're running short on time, so I'll just give you excerpts from Mont Blanc. This is part one.
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