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The Witch of Atlas
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Witch of Atlas is a major poetic work of the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem was written in 78 ottava rima stanzas during the period when Prometheus Unbound and The Cloud were written and reflects similar themes. The theme of the poem is a quest for the perfect union.
The Witch of Atlas is a major poetic work of the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem was written in 78 ottava rima stanzas during the period when Prometheus Unbound and The Cloud were written and reflects similar themes. The theme of the poem is a quest for the perfect union.
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Sitting upon a seat of emerald stone.
9.
And universal Pan, 'tis said, was there,
And though none saw him,—through the adamant
Of the deep mountains, through the trackless air, _115
And through those living spirits, like a want,
He passed out of his everlasting lair
Where the quick heart of the great world doth pant,
And felt that wondrous lady all alone,—
And she felt him, upon her emerald throne. _120
10.
And every nymph of stream and spreading tree,
And every shepherdess of Ocean's flocks,
Who drives her white waves over the green sea,
And Ocean with the brine on his gray locks,
And quaint Priapus with his company, _125
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made me feel like I was reading an atlas
Idealistic and lush. Sparks great comparisons with Keats' La Belle Dame Sans Merci before the Witch in Shelley's Witch of Atlas takes on a contrarion form to what the word 'Witch' would enjoy, playing the role of a trickster Goddess of love and instruction in the ways of tameness.
Shelley also begins
Listened to it while I cleaned.
For what it is, I enjoyed this poem. I think perhaps the most profound or meaningful part for me was the final handful of verses in which the Witch gives dreams to those she observes sleeping. Death undone and injustice turned right. What a beautiful dream made all the more beautiful by the hope of
Some really breath-taking images
"The Witch of Atlas" is a fantastical, if not flowery, poem which Shelley evidently dedicated to his wife Mary with a few extra stanzas at the beginning addressing her. Now, it's admittedly not strong in its structure concerning plot, but gosh this is interesting at the very core. So a Witch lives o