Mont Blanc

What questions do the speaker in this poem ask? What answers does he give or receive?

This speaker has larger questions of his surroundings than Wordsworth seemed to. In Stanza 3, he questions the mountain, Mont Blanc. "Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled//The veil of life and death?" He doesn't believe the thing he is seeing that is the mountain and wonder if it might be a dream, "...or do I lie//In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep//Spread far around and inaccessibly//Its circles?" He can't even believe he is awake, that is how astonishing the sight of this place is to him. Other parts he casts in myth, "Is this the scene//Where the old Earthquake-daemon taught her young//Ruin? Were these their toys? or did a sea//Of fire, envelope once this silent snow?" He knows though that he will never be told the answer to this as "None can reply-all seems eternal now." Though he finds the voice of the mountain useful in finding the truth or at least denying the false, "Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repel//Large codes of fraud and woe"

In the fifth stanza, he again brings up an interesting question this is not answered directly. "And what art thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,//If to the human mind's imagining//Silence and solitude were vacancy?" Addressed to the mountain. What are Mont Blanc and all the natural wonders of the world if the people find in them nothing but "silence and solitude" which they find to be nothing, or at least the lack of anything? The fact is that silence and solitude are refreshing and often invigorating. However, people do often forget and overlook such wondrous sights, which I feel is part of the point he hopes to express.