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Once upon a time I read that there are three things we can gaze at indefinitely: the flames of fire, the waves on the water and the clouds in the sky. Poets make good use of this. Let us take the clouds—from Indian epic to Wordsworth, from Homer through Pushkin to Swinburne poems are densely packed with clouds. Description, image, simile, metaphor, allegory, symbol: one could compose a full meteorological style guide. The age of romanticism particularly delighted in clouds, in their tempestuous rage or their amiable golden edges. Seldom do they surprise the reader.
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Schiller, R. (2019). Shelley Scientist. In: Between One Culture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20538-6_3
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