F #12

“I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm, and the snowy mountains, ‘the palaces of nature,’ were not changed” (p.48-49). “The palaces of nature” was taken from the poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, written by Lord Byron. Lord Byron was a friend of Shelley’s and her husband’s. The fact that she quoted a line from one of his works shows the respect that she had for him. He is also mentioned in the author’s introduction and he was a big reason that Mary Shelley even wrote Frankenstein.