Thursday, January 1, 2004

Prometheus Unbound: Act I (Excerpt) Comments

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SCENE.--A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the Precipice. Panthea and Ione areseated at his feet. Time, night. During the Scene, morning slowly breaks.
Prometheus.
Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits
But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Pranab K Chakraborty 10 August 2015

Classic post by PH. Thanks.

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The Precipice is jealous and cunning.it wants prometheus suffer extreme calamity. the poet has filled envy even into lifeless and personified figuratively. indeed a great poem.

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Ramesh T A 10 August 2015

This long classical poem only a great poet of Shelley's stature only can attempt on a mega-scale and express without any flaw!

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