England in 1819: Revolution Flashcards
Language agitates presents contemporary problems in language which is provocative
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King
A people starved and stabbed in th’ untilled field
monarchy polluting
Going from kind–> princes–> government, an approximation of the chain of being, and the filtering down, how the filth and waste of the monarchy are infecting society
“dregs of their dull race” “mud from a muddy spring”
images to show injustice
Crit about his liking abstract principles:
“two-edged sword”, “golden and sanguine laws”
“a book sealed”
BURT: “believes abstractions such as Liberty and Justice are at least as real as tables or lemons”
Cares about equality in gen (cath)
“time’s worst statute, unrepealed”
Hope! Revolution
crit re structure:
not just a list of bad! makes a sentence, gives an end
“are graves”
“a swelling role call of injustice” RUMENS
“a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.”
Rulers… vs People
“leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th’ untilled field”
French rev reference. The people suffer the sins of the rulers, it is their blood if they dont kill them. Also language, enacts stabbing.
CONTEXT:
Shelley’s ring
What he writes in hotel registers
il buon tempo verra
I am a lover of mankind, a Democrat, and an atheist
FORM:
images
balanced reflects 2 contrasting
Crit
modified Petrarchan Sonnet switched sestet and octet
- smaller bit detailing rulers weighing down on the bit about society is like many illustrations of social order: divine right of kings and Societe d’ordres
-the fact its wrong, unbalanced like England
-Shows that Shelley is happy to upend tradition
Rumens: “the most courtly of forms, the sonnet, turns against the court”
PUBLICATIONS: CRit that is wrong! View from Arnold that has stuck Defense of poetry quotes/ date/ how long after Pub date of England in 1819 What did he say to Leigh Hunt
Crits say it incites action
“beautiful ineffectual angel…beating his wings in vain”dfus
“unacknowledged legislators of the world” pub 1840, 20 years later
1839
“I don’t expect you to publish it”
Peterloo Massacre
august 1819, Crowd listening to a reformer speak, attempts to arrest by army resulted in 11 deaths and over 400 injured
“agitator”
Parks
sustains indignation without monotony, condenses topical information. Who says? Me?
Burt. Seems to make it accessible.
FRENCH REV CONTEXT:
Godwin, political justice was “the child of the French Revolution”- Godwin
Rousseau ideas were adopted by Jacobins
thomas Paine “all men are created equal”
Hancock: The Goddess of Revolution rocked his cradle.
Hancock: has a “faith for a future with its perfected humanity”
Woods: loyal to the spirit of 89-93
