FTP identify this poem that begins "hail to thee blithe spirit" a poem about a bird by Percy Shelley.
The final stanza invokes "harmonious madness" and quotes a rhyme from Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence as the speaker implores the reader to: "listen then- as I am listening now." The 18th stanza references Hamlet's claim that we "look before and after" instead of in the moment. As the speaker speculates "what objects are the fountains/of thy happy strain" he compares the title figure to a poet hidden in thought, to a high-born maiden in a tower, and a rose embowered. Composed at the same time as "The Cloud" in 1820, the most famous section s of the poem describe a cloud of fire, whose loud voice fills the earth and air, as it springest higher and higher. FTP identify this poem that begins "hail to thee blithe spirit" a poem about a bird by Percy Shelley.
The final stanza invokes "harmonious madness" and quotes a rhyme from Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence as the speaker implores the reader to: "listen then- as I am listening now."
To a Skylark