Mont Blanc

Who is the speaker in the poem, Mont Blanc?

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The poem is written from the perspective of an unnamed speaker who describes visiting Mont Blanc and staring into the Ravine of Arve. The poem revolves around the speaker’s embodied human presence in these physical environments. From the speaker’s deep internal reflections prompted by the presence of the majestic landscape and from the lauding of the vocation of poetry as a mode of connecting with the universe’s hidden truths, it is plausible to conflate the voice of the speaker in the poem with that of Percy Shelley himself.

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