1. Ode to the West
... feels as if it is surrounding the author as he writes and the reader as he or she reads. The "closing night" is used also to mean the final night. Shelley shows how he cannot have a transcendence even in an open sky for even the sky is a "dome." The "sepulchre" is a tomb made out ... of rock and his imagination and the natural world will be locked and "Vaulted" tight. But in following lines Shelley writes how this "sepulchre" will "burst" (28). In that sense, "Vaulted" takes on the meaning of a great leap and even a spring. Shelley uses the phrase "congregated might ... restart totally n...
- Word Count: 2977
- Approx Pages: 12
- Grade Level: High School