After reading an article about a woman who saw a "white fountain" during a near death experience, the narrator of this work visits Mrs. Z only to discover it was a typo as she actually saw a "white mountain". The line "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain" is repeated in this poem in which the speaker asserts he sat "like a king, and like Marat bled" while describing shaving in the bathtub. The second canto ends when the speaker's daughter Hazel drowns herself after she is ditched by her blind date. Many lines in this poem are identified as images of the impending arrival of assassin Jacob Gr
After reading an article about a woman who saw a "white fountain" during a near death experience, the narrator of this work visits Mrs. Z only to discover it was a typo as she actually saw a "white mountain". The line "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain" is repeated in this poem in which the speaker asserts he sat "like a king, and like Marat bled" while describing shaving in the bathtub. The second canto ends when the speaker's daughter Hazel drowns herself after she is ditched by her blind date. Many lines in this poem are identified as images of the impending arrival of assassin Jacob Grey to New Wye in a commentary written by the exiled king of Zembla, Charles Kinbote. For 10 points, name this poem by John Shade that titles a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
After reading an article about a woman who saw a "white fountain" during a near death experience, the narrator of this work visits Mrs. Z only to discover it was a typo as she actually saw a "white mountain".
"Pale Fire"