Fierce Roars the Midnight Storm
Laura is dying during a fierce midnight storm; shame and remorse are foretold at her pillow, with no hand to close her eyes. The speaker vows to seek and comfort her when no friend is near, then lie and die on her grave after her death.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Romantic Poetry, Gothic Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 196 words
First lines
Fierce roars the midnight storm / O'er the wild mountain, / Dark clouds the night deform, / Swift rolls the fountain-
See! o'er yon rocky height, / Dim mists are flying- / See by the moon's pale light, / Poor Laura's dying!
Shame and remorse shall howl, / By her false pillow- / Fiercer than storms that roll, / O'er the white billow;
No hand her eyes to close, / When life is flying, / But she will find repose, / For Laura's dying!
Genres
- Romantic Poetry — The fierce storm, wild mountain and moonlit mists accompany Laura's impending death and the speaker's intense promises of affection and devotion.
- Gothic Poetry — The midnight storm surrounds a dying woman, anticipated shame and remorse, the absence of anyone to close her eyes, and a vow to die on her grave.
- Lyric Poetry — Short rhyming stanzas express the speaker's response to Laura's dying through first-person promises to comfort her, prove esteem and die on her grave.
Tags
romanticism · gothic · lyric · nature · death · betrayal · storm
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Romantic Poetry, Gothic Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 196 words
- Structure: 1 section, 7 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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