Bloom's Literary Themes - ymerleksi - home

“Ode to the West Wind” 243We recall the wistful uncertainty of the conclusion of “Mont Blanc,”the assertion not that the world brims with moral spirit but that itwould be discouraging and unthinkable if it did not. All genuinemysticism carries with a sense of the experimental, the uncertain, andShelley ends his great ode with a fervent wish, the factuality of whichcannot be established except by experience.