Billy Collins's reference to the "sidewalks of life" in "On Turning Ten" is a parody of this poem.
Billy Collins's reference to the "sidewalks of life" in "On Turning Ten" is a parody of this poem. This poem addresses a figure who sees "old palaces and towers quivering within the wave's intenser day" after comparing the central subject to the hair of "some fierce Maenad." The narrator of this work concludes its first stanza by addressing its subject as (*) "Destroyer and Preserver," and ends each of its first three stanzas by exhorting "O hear!" The fourth stanza of this poem concludes by calling its subject "tameless, and swift, and proud" after the narrator's dramatic statement "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" After addressing its subject as "the trumpet of prophecy," this poem concludes by asking "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" For 10 points, name this Percy Shelley poem.
Billy Collins's reference to the "sidewalks of life" in "On Turning Ten" is a parody of this poem.
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