Poetry....any recommendations?
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revolution_fr I need a poem for my English class, and was hoping to do one either about, or written during the French Rev. And, go figure, now I can't remember any besides that poem by Wordsworth, which I don't really want to do. Any suggestions?
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Date: 2008-11-19 06:01 am (UTC)Percy Shelley was an FR fanboy, too- he wrote a couple of long allegorical poems on the FR (like Alastar and Queen Mab), but I'm guessing you'd want a shorter one.
... I'm kind of blanking at the moment on his shorter pieces, since he liked writing really long allegorical and philosophical odes. Like, long. Not much else to do in the 18th/ 19th century apparently. You could try 'Ode to the West Wind' since that's so famous, and is about the spread of revolutionary ideas.
Coleridge wrote some quasi-prophetic poem about the French Revolution being the culmination of the evolution of humanity, but I can't remember what it's called.
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Date: 2008-11-19 06:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-19 10:57 am (UTC)Both the first and second generations of 'Romantics' were understandably fascinated by the Revolution. Though written later, Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy is another popular poem with the British left - it was written after the massacre of 'Peterloo', in St Peter's Field, Manchester, where militia charged a crowd demonstrating for voting rights (I did a post on it on my lj page a couple of weeks ago) - it's the English version of the Champ de Mars massacre. Fantastic poem, specially the verse beginning 'Rise like lions after slumber/in unconquerable number.."
Wordsworth's lines 'bliss it was in that dawn to be alive/and to be young was very heaven' is the most oft-quoted whenever discussion of the French Rev is mentioned, (it's become a cliché), but he moved to the right and his view of the Revolution became negative: he was a friend of the Brissotins and, I think, actually visiting the Convention when Louvet made his denunciation of Robespierre - the incident appears in the Prelude.
We tend to forget Robert Burns was very radical - he's rumoured to have sent guns to France - and only get the haggis/mouse version in England (surprise!). 'A Man's a man for a' that' incorporates lines from Tom Paine (whose book was banned and who was sentenced to death in absentia) and The Tree of Liberty makes his politics very clear (I'll post this then do another post with a link, cos links screw up my posts)
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Date: 2008-11-19 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-11-20 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-19 11:45 am (UTC)First Act by Coleridge
Second and Third by Southey (http://schoollibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/robespierre.htm)
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Date: 2008-11-19 04:33 pm (UTC)I can say about hungarian jacobins more, if someone is interested in it.....
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Date: 2008-11-19 07:24 pm (UTC)(Also, while googling, came across a lovely little verse by Burns on Burke's Reflections:
"Oft have I wonder'd that on Irish ground
No poisonous Reptile has ever been found;
Revealed stands the secret of great Nature's work;
She preserved her poison to create a Burke!")
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