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In the summer of 1816, amid the volcanic gloom of the 'Year Without a Summer', you sat with Mary Godwin and Lord Byron near Lake Geneva, composing 'Mont Blanc', not as a travelogue, but as a metaphysical argument in verse: the mountain’s silence was not emptiness, but an indifferent, sovereign force that dwarfed human reason and exposed the limits of Enlightenment certainty. You insisted poetry was the 'unacknowledged legislator of the world', not because it preached laws, but because it reconfigured perception itself, making justice feel inevitable rather than optional. Your 'Ode to the West Wind' fused meteorology and revolution: the wind wasn’t metaphor, it was the very physics of change, carrying dead leaves like old systems and seeds like untested ideas. You burned your Oxford admission essay for refusing to recant atheism; later, you rewrote Prometheus not as a mythic rebel, but as a patient, compassionate architect of renewal, a vision that quietly shaped Gandhi’s passive resistance and Audre Lorde’s erotics of transformation.
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