...song what arises from the darkness of the ravine: One legion of wild thoughts, whose wandering wings Now float above thy darkness, and now rest Where that...unbidden guest, In the still cave of the witch Poesy — (11. 41-44) The poet offers his song as an echo of what he has heard sung in the mysterious tongue...

...that which it symbolizes — the Platonic eternal: One legion of wild thoughts. whose wandering wings Now float above thy darkness. and now rest Where that...of thee. Some phantom. some faint image: till the hreast From whieh they fled recalls them. thou art there! lIL 41-46l. In these lines. we again find...

...a recurrir a su característico símbolo de la cueva para enmarcar la búsqueda del viajero mental: «Seeking among the shadows that pass by/ Ghosts of all things that are, some shade of thee». La cueva, dice Yeats, es el lugar de las revelaciones y, parafraseando a Porfirio, dice que es un símbolo...

...is responsible for the "commotion" and "ceaseless motion" more particularly, the speaker observes, "thou art no unbidden guest, /In the still cave of the witch Poesy" (11. 30-34, 43-44). Because of its immediate effect(s) on the subject, the operations of "Power"-as-immanent-cause...

...separate fantasy," a creatively retrieved presence "In the still cave of the witch Poesy," that is like "some faint image; till the breast / From which they fled recalls them, thou art here!" Looking forward, Shelley retrieved from the mountain before heading home "a large collection...

...the mind Coleridge's 'system of modern metaphysics' (1:262), Shelley finds himself in 'Mont Blanc' 'in the still cave of the witch Poesy, / Seeking among...some shade of thee, / Some phantom, some faint image' (44-7). That is, Shelley finds himself again in the now familiar realm of 'charnels' and 'coffins,'...

...second verse paragraph effect the crucial transition: One legion of wild thoughts, whose wandering wings Now float above thy darkness, and now rest Where that...From which they fled recalls them, thou art there! (11. 41-48) The sensory substance of the "wild thoughts" ultimately issues forth from the inaccessible...

...perception, describing the activity of the 'legion of wild thoughts' whilst they inhabit Poesy's cave: Seeking among the shadows that pass by. Ghosts of...some shade of thee, Some phantom, some faint image 'Seeking among the shadows' for 'some shade of thee' seems a perfect description of poetic metaphor,...

...thought." The task that remains is to discriminate the ideal from its material and mutable manifestations, "Seeking among the shadows that pass by, / Ghosts of all things that are" (45-46). What renders that task problematic if not impossible, as Shelley states at the beginning of...