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प्रश्न
Explain the metaphor in the line: ‘Poets are the mirrors of gigantic shadows that futurity casts on the present’.
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उत्तर
Shelly in his ‘A Defense of Poetry’ praises the art of poetry. He says that poets are the hierophants of an apprehended inspiration, the mirrors of gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present and the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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