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"ENGLAND IN 1819" - Shelley
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,–
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,–mud from a muddy spring,–
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,–
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,–
An army, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,–
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless–a book sealed;
A Senate,–Time’s worst statute unrepealed,–
Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestous day.
"ENGLAND IN 1819" - Shelley
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,–
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,–mud from a muddy spring,–
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,–
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,–
An army, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,–
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless–a book sealed;
A Senate,–Time’s worst statute unrepealed,–
Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestous day.
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The poet calls the king, George III ‘old’, ‘mad’, ‘blind’, ‘despised’ and ‘dying’, as the king suffered from mental illness, his political influence declined. His sons took over the reigns but they too earned disfavour of the people as they oppressed the poor. The poet compares the rulers of his country to leeches who survive on the blood of the common people. These lines refer to the Peterloo massacre. It was on 16 August 1819 when a gathering of common men met (at St. Peters fields, Manchester) to declare their support for electoral reforms. The legal system of England was at that time serving the interests of the rich, religion too had become Christ less as the religious heads favoured the rich. The Bible became a ‘booksealed’. The unreformed Parliament along with the rotten laws are imagined to be a cemetery from which a glorious spirit would emerge. This spirit would bring light of stability, equality and freedom to the existing turbulent order.
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