This is a quote form Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, a poem by Byron. It is about a man who travels and draws pleasure from the land. Marry Shelley includes a lot about the sublime in Frankenstein and this is one example of this.
". . . Above me are the Alps,
The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls,
Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,
And throned Eternity in icy halls
Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls
The avalanche -- the thunderbolt of snow!
All that expands the spirit, yet appals,
Gather around these summits, as to show
How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below."
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Master Index. August 26, 2008. <http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Byron/charold3.html>
No comments:
Post a Comment