Explain the contradiction in the similies, ‘Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb’.

Considering that this is an excerpt from a lecture, how does the commentary provided by the speaker string the arguments together?

The Cloud ‘fuses together a creative myth, a scientific monograph, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure’— explain.

How do the words in bold, in the lines below, illustrate the poet’s ability to convey criticism cryptically? Our meddling intellect

Misshapes the beauteous forms of things:

We murder to dissect.

Explain the metaphor in the line: ‘Poets are ... the mirrors of gigantic shadows that futurity casts on the present’.