The speaker in the poem Thunder, by Joanna Baillie, takes the reader on a journey from the beginning of a thunder storm to the end results of the thunder storm. The speaker starts by describing the impending storm that is coming but is still a little ways off. The way she does this is by the following: “Behold the somber robes whose gathering folds,” / “Thy secret majesty conceal”/ “Advancing clouds from every point of heaven” / “Like hosts of gathering foes” (3-8).
In the next section the speaker describes the anticipation of both humans and animals have of this coming storm. Here the sublime is very strongly conveyed. Edmund Burke declares that “no passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear”/ “whatever
In the next section the speaker describes the anticipation of both humans and animals have of this coming storm. Here the sublime is very strongly conveyed. Edmund Burke declares that “no passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear”/ “whatever