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The Cloud ‘fuses together a creative myth, a scientific monograph, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure': explain.
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The Cloud, authored by Shelly fuses together a creative myth ‘I am the daughter of Earth and Water’, a scientific monograph ‘And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams’, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure ‘And out of the caverns of rain’.
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