Question
What made the poet proclaim Ernest was the Stone Face?
Solution
The poet, while speaking to his crowd, heard Ernest. Ernest spoke from the depths of his mind and heart. He thought the lives and personalities of Ernest himself were a more noble kind of poetry than he ever wrote. The poet found great similarities around the Great Stone Face between the misty white clouds and the white hairs around Ernest's brow. So, poet proclaimed the Stone Face to be Ernest himself.
