Literature of Elizabethan and restoration
Absolam and Achitophel:
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of shaftasburry, who stirred up opposition against the King and promoted Monmouth's claim to the throne. The poem illustrates how Achitophel manipulates Absalom and public sentiment to create a rebellion against King David, reflecting the real-life political maneuvering and public unrest surrounding the question of succession in England.
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Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by john drydon , written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681. The poem tells the Biblical tale of the rebellion of Absolam against king david ; in this context it is an allegory used to represent a story contemporary to Dryden, concerning King charles and the Exclusion caries (1679–1681). The poem also references the popoish plot (1678).
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John Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" is an allegorical poem that. The poem uses King David to represent King Charles II and his legitimate, Catholic heir, James, while Absalom symbolizes Charles's illegitimate, Protestant son, Duke of mounmouth The deceitful advisor Achitophel represents the prominent politician
Death be not proud :
Death Be Not Proud" presents an argument against the power of death. Addressing Death as a person, the speaker warns Death against pride in his power. Such power is merely an illusion, and the end Death thinks it brings to men and women is in fact a rest from world-weariness for its alleged "victims." The poet criticizes Death as a slave to other forces: fate, chance, kings, and desperate men. Death is not in control, for a variety of other powers exercise their volition in taking lives. Even in the rest it brings, Death is inferior to drugs. Finally, the speaker predicts the end of Death itself, stating, "Death, thou shalt die
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Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet , by English poet john donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633. The poem is included as one of the nineteen sonnets that comprise Donne's holysonnets or Divine Meditations, among his best-known works. Most editions number the poem as the tenth in the sonnet sequence, which follows the order of poems in the Westmoreland Manuscript (c. 1620), the most complete arrangement of the cycle, discovered in the late nineteenth century. However, two editions published shortly after Donne's death include the sonnets in a different order, where this poem appears as eleventh in the Songs and Sonnets (published 1633) and sixth in Divine Meditations (published 1635).
