On the Dark Height of Jura
The speaker recalls braving night storms on Jura and now seems to hear their dead father's voice in the mountain winds. They wonder whether the father's ghost rides the whirlwind.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Romantic Poetry, Gothic Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 251 words
First lines
1.
Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling / Rise on the night-rolling breath of the blast, / When o'er the dark aether the tempest is swelling, / And on eddying whirlwind the thunder-peal passed?
2.
For oft have I stood on the dark height of Jura, / Which frowns on the valley that opens beneath; / Oft have I braved the chill night-tempest's fury, / Whilst around me, I thought, echoed murmurs of death.
Genres
- Romantic Poetry — The speaker connects a mountain tempest with imagined murmurs of death and the seeming sound of a dead father's voice.
- Gothic Poetry — Dark mountain heights, thunder and swirling mist surround the speaker's uncertain impressions of ghosts.
- Lyric Poetry — The first-person speaker addresses a dead father and describes personal perceptions during a mountain storm.
Tags
ghosts · night storm · thunder · dead father · mountains · lyric poetry
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Romantic Poetry, Gothic Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 251 words
- Structure: 1 section, 8 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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