"The Cloud" |
The Cloud
This website is dedicated to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "The Cloud." This poem was published in August 1820 in
Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four
Acts, With Other Poems by Charles and James Ollier in London.
It consists of six stanzas in mostly anapestic or antidactylus meter with varying meter throughout. "The Cloud" explores life's transformation through the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
The background picture on this page was taken by this website's author on the family farm in rural Dallas County, Alabama. To the right is the opening page of the original 1820 publication of the poem copied from wikipedia.
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It consists of six stanzas in mostly anapestic or antidactylus meter with varying meter throughout. "The Cloud" explores life's transformation through the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
The background picture on this page was taken by this website's author on the family farm in rural Dallas County, Alabama. To the right is the opening page of the original 1820 publication of the poem copied from wikipedia.
Contact the editor