Re: The French Revolution
Posted by:
Miko (---.tbaytel.net)
Date: May 14, 2022 08:30PM
I lost my password for my other account.
Ah thank you! This is an excellent example of poets and thie politics. "For every hour I spend writing poetry, I spend another 12 thinking about politics" so says William Wordsworth.
The only problem I have now, is finding an article that deals with the poem specifically, rather than the poet himself.
HEre is another such poem that I cannot find any... ANY feedback on, even at the library here.
"THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AS IT APPEARED TO ENTHUSIASTS AT ITS COMMENCEMENT " by William Wordsworth...
HEre is the poem.
:1 Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!
2 For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood
3 Upon our side, we who were strong in love!
4 Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
5 But to be young was very heaven!--Oh! times,
6 In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways
7 Of custom, law, and statute, took at once
8 The attraction of a country in romance!
9 When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights,
10 When most intent on making of herself
11 A prime Enchantress--to assist the work
12 Which then was going forward in her name!
13 Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth,
14 The beauty wore of promise, that which sets
15 (As at some moment might not be unfelt
16 Among the bowers of paradise itself )
17 The budding rose above the rose full blown.
18 What temper at the prospect did not wake
19 To happiness unthought of? The inert
20 Were roused, and lively natures rapt away!
21 They who had fed their childhood upon dreams,
22 The playfellows of fancy, who had made
23 All powers of swiftness, subtilty, and strength
24 Their ministers,--who in lordly wise had stirred
25 Among the grandest objects of the sense,
26 And dealt with whatsoever they found there
27 As if they had within some lurking right
28 To wield it;--they, too, who, of gentle mood,
29 Had watched all gentle motions, and to these
30 Had fitted their own thoughts, schemers more wild,
31 And in the region of their peaceful selves;--
32 Now was it that both found, the meek and lofty
33 Did both find, helpers to their heart's desire,
34 And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish;
35 Wcre called upon to exercise their skill,
36 Not in Utopia, subterranean fields,
37 Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!
38 But in the very world, which is the world:
I do not know where the poem came from... as in it's source. I need a critical article relating to this as well....
Thank you so far.