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:crown: England in 1819 :crown:, WRITTEN BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792…
:crown: England in 1819 :crown:
TITLE
'England in 1819'
: A year of upheaval, one of the country's most chaotic years; Peterloo Massacre
KEY QUOTES
"An old, mad, blin, despised, and dying King;"
"Rules who neither see nor feel nor know / But leechlike to their fainting country cling"
"A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field"
"Religion Christless, Godless - a book sealed;"
"...a glorious Phantom may / burst, to illumine our tempestuous day"
THEMES
Oppression
Distrust
Tyranny
Corruption
Violence
Hope
Turbulence
FORM AND STRUCTURE
Sonnet (14 lines) + Iambic pentameter: Ironic, typically used for romantic poems - subverted form to turn against the establishment
LANGUAGE
Alliteration
Caesura
Couplet
Enjambment
Extended metaphor
Iambic pentameter
Repetition
Sibilance
Volta
CONTEXT
Poetry known as radical, along with political and social views (atheism, socialist idealism)
Vocally critical of monarchy and hereditary riches (ironic, he is an heir to established fortune too)
Romantic poet
Peterloo Massacre: Thousands of ordinary people lost their lives in a controversial war
King George III: Mentally unfit (mad), despised, ill
WRITTEN BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)