“Monarch of Gods
and Daemons, and all spirits but one, who throng those bright and rolling
worlds which thou and alone of living things behold with sleepless eyes! Regard
this earth made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou requite for
knee-worship, prayer and praise, and toil and hecatombs of broken hearts, with
fear and self-contempt and barren hope”.
Reference and
Explanation
“These lines
have been taken from lyrical drama ‘Prometheus Unbound’, written by P.B.
Shelley”.
These lines have
been uttered by Prometheus who is the symbol of human soul or human mind or the
portrait of Shelley himself. Here Prometheus is addressing Jupiter as the
Monarch of all living beings, Gods and Daemons, but not of Prometheus, viz; the
human mind or soul. He wants to say that though Jupiter is the supreme power,
but he cannot change or control human mind. Further, he says to Jupiter that you
and I watch the world with sleepless eyes, because human mind or soul is not
allowed to sleep; then he says that whatever I have observed to see the earth
which is full with your slaves. You compel them to bow before you and give you
their prayers, praise and worship; but what is the output of their obedience,
what you requite them for their hecatombs is nothing but the fear, self
contempt and fruitless hope.
“Whilst me, who
am thy foe, eyeless in hate Hast thou made reign and triumph to thy scorn”.
Reference and
Explanation
“These lines
have been taken from lyrical drama ‘Prometheus Unbound’, written by P.B.
Shelley”.
In these lines
Prometheus is calling himself the enemy or foe of Jupiter and says that there is
the extreme contempt into the eyes of Jupiter for me and in that hatred he Jupiter
has become blind and considers himself the reign and triumph to that blind
hatred of Jupiter.
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