Point of View

“Mont Blanc” is written from the perspective of a human observer. The narrator ruminates on the majesty of the mountain and the relationship between the mountain and humanity. In narrating the experience of beholding the mountain, the speaker explicitly refers to his own human scale and the workings of his own specifically human consciousness and embodiment: “Dizzy Ravine! and when I gaze on thee / I seem as in a trance sublime and strange / To muse on my own separate fantasy, / My own, my human mind, which passively / Now renders and receives fast influencings, / Holding an unremitting interchange / With the clear universe of things around;” (34-40) First person pronouns are used throughout this section of the verse to refer to the speaker, while second person pronouns are used as if the speaker is in dialogue with the ravine of Arve.

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