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Fried catfish, roasting ears dipped in butter , watermelon , corn liquorgarnish the jukebox clearing its throat with a frozen smile booming out the bluesMississippi talkin to itself in a big quiet voice
red lipped smiling Coca Cola girl gazes down twelve feet high
Thermometers running for the woods to cool offGreystones in a green sea of cotton warm haze protect Little Robertbelting out hell hound scales his wooden shack wobbling on its cedar post supportsSlick brown China berry trees hold out clusters of
decaying branches to the Sun
The MissiisipI calmly gazes on murmuring to itselfLong distance mirage like feels good to be alive shimmering cotton field disguises a pool of silver tears as Harp blowers, mandolin sounds, guitar cascades, blue silver cords lighten up a harmonica train chasea hot moonlit humid midsummer night weeps a 'Death Letter Blues' 32- 20 shotgun tonesThe Kate Adams beats the brown belly of mighty river froth
its great paddles filling the sky with black froth
Cathedral like smoke furnaces breath dragon like flares across midnight waters gliding like a swift heavenly chariotPreachers takin over the Churches from folk tradition
gapped scales German toy plays glissen foxhunting howls
locomotive wails blaring trumpet notesCall and response field hollers
Railroad gang rhythmic hammering
Parchmont farm wooing the Governor in
a ubiquitous apartheid stenchas others Dance and Sing the cotton field blues away
at Saturday night HootenaneysAll recorded for humanity
'In the Land where Blues Began'1 comment: Too far from the Sun !A mechanical whirring bird
drops Icarus-like into
HIstory
Disbelief
Anger
Grief
Questions
Meaning
Stoical Black Diamond Bay believers
Perhaps knowing their Brueghel ?
Maintain a tradition
As I hurry on by.Pete BurtonNo comments: Thursday, 3 November 2016 Shelley- the Peoples Poet
Shelley- thePeoples Poet
Shelley more than any other Romantic poet understood theimportance of the power of words to improve the lot of human beings and hebelieved passionately that he had a duty to educate, agitate and organise for that end.
It must be so- I will arise and awaken
The multitude, and like a sulphurous hill,
Which on a sudden from its own snows has shaken
The swoon of ages, it shall burst and fill
The world with cleansing fire: it must, it will-
It may not be restrained! (Islam, 11 xiv)
This stemmed from a love of human beings. In his preface to Alistorhe declares this love.
Those who do not love their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives,and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. They are morally dead. andin A Defence of Poetry he writes Aman to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must puthimself in the place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures ofhis species must become his own.
By being able to imagine standing in anothers shoes , particularlythose of the exploited and oppressed, the poet could identify with thoseothers, engage in a struggle against all oppression and exploitation and usewords as weapons to end that oppression.
For Lord Byron his resistance was personal the poetry ofsomeone motivated not by love of his fellow man but anger at a wounded hurtpride at his own class. Not for no reason did Marx declare famously:
the real difference between Byron and Shelley is this:those who understand and love and rejoice that Byron died at thirty six,because if he had lived he would have become a reactionary bourgeois; theygrieve that Shelley died at twenty nine, because he was essentially arevolutionist and he would always have been one of the advance guard ofsocialism
In poems, letters and prose essays alike Shelley attacked allthose who enjoy the profit of the labour of others, as compared with those whoexercise this labour. In the Prose essay A Philosophical Review of Reformhe opposes both the landed aristocracy and those sections of Capitalists toowhose interests were more or less bound up with the landed interests bankers, stock-jobbers, fund holder etc.
In addition to The Mask of Anarchy- his famous poem aboutthe massacre at Peterloo in Spa fields- he also wrote to Leigh Hunt by letterat the time at the beginning of the blasphemous trial of Richard Carlisle forpublishing the work of Tom Paine.
First we hear that a troop of the enraged mastermanufacturers are let loose with sharpened swords upon a multitude of theirstarving dependents and in spite of the remonstrances of the regular troopsthat they ride over them and massacre without distinction of sex or age , andcut off womens breast and dash the heads of infants against the stones.
In the Assassins he attacks the respectable man- thesmooth, smiling, polished villain, whom all the city honours; whose very tradeis lies and murder; who buys his daily bread with blood and tears of men . Thisis the period following the French Revolution, a Revolution Shelley uniquelyamongst the Romantic poets never turns his back on. Here he is on the role ofthe Constitutional Monarchy:
The power which has increased therefore is the power of therich. The name and office of King is merely the mask of this power, and is akind of stalking horse used to conceal these catchers of men, whilst they laytheir nets. Monarchy is only the string which ties the robbers bundle. -aperceptive, wise comment that sadly is as relevant now as it was two hundred yearsago!
In the same prose essay A Philosophical View of Reform (anessay suppressed for 100 years) he makes comments on the terrible effects ofthe Industrial Revolution- poverty, growing inequality, the contradictionbetween the tremendous productive power of the Industrial Revolution and itsterrible effects on the working class and poor:
Population increased, a greater number of hands wereemployed in the labours of agriculture and commerce, towns arose where villageshad been, and the proportion borne by those whose labour produced the materialsof subsistence and enjoyment to those who claim for themselves a superfluity ofthese materials began to increase indefinitely Discoveries which shouldhave lightened, have added a weight to the curse imposed on Adam.
He goes on to attack Malthus for blaming sexual intercourse bythe poor for population growth. He has the hardened insolence to propose as aremedy that the poor should be compelled to abstain from sexual intercourse,while the rich are to be permitted to add as many mouths to consume theproducts of the labour of the poor as they please!
He condemns the sordid lust of self the grovelling hopeof interest and gold in Queen Mab- everything including human life is turnedinto a commodity to be bought and sold in the market place -the Industrialworker is the modern day slave:
Yon squalid form,
Leaner than fleshless misery, that wastes
A sunless life in the unwholesome mine,
Drags out in labour a protracted death. (Queen Mab, 1`111112-15)
In The Mask of Anarchy he contrasts wage-slavery with freedomthirty years before The Communist Manifesto
'What is Freedom? - ye can tell
That which is slavery is, too well -
For its very name has grown
To an echo of your own.'
Shelley was also clear that this oppression was shored upand defended by the Capitalist State. And that bourgeois freedoms were insufficientto end this system The consequences are poverty, misery, moral degradation,crime and alienation
'
Answer from their living graves
This demand - tyrants would flee
Like a dream's dim imagery:'
A shadow soon to pass away,
A superstition, and a name
Echoing from the cave of Fame.'
And a comely table spread
From his daily labour come
In a neat and happy home.'
For the trampled multitude -
No - in countries that are free
Such starvation cannot be
As in England now we see.'
And a State that would use force when inevitable resistancematerialised against wage slavery.
But Shelley was optimistic that the working class would endthis system:
XXV
'This isthe Winter of the world; and here
We die,even as the winds of Autumn fade,
Expiringin the frore and foggy air.
Behold!Spring comes, though we must pass who made
Thepromise of its birth,--even as the shade
Whichfrom our death, as from a mountain, flings
Thefuture, a broad sunrise; thus arrayed
As withthe plumes of overshadowing wings,
From itsdark gulf of chains Earth like an eagle springs. (Islam.1X XXV)
Prometheus Unbound is a play that represents a vision ofthe future without tyrants. It is Shelley's response to a French revolution gone wrong and perhaps the piece of work that best reveals his politics , values and ideals. He states his intentions in the Preface:
"My purpose has hitherto been simply to familiarize the highly refinedimagination of the more select classes of poetical readers with beautifulidealisms of moral excellence; aware that, until the mind can love, and admire,and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seedscast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples intodust, although they would bear the harvest of his happiness."
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
Shelley: TheTrumpet of a Prophecy
https://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1975/06/shelley.htm
JacquelineMulhallen,Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary(Pluto2015), xiv, 170pp. There is a review of this new book on Shelley here:
http://www.counterfire.org/articles/book-reviews/18062-percy-bysshe-shelley-poet-and-revolutionary
Bestbiography Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes.
Reviews andDiscussion of this biography here:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/850881.Shelley
Keats was an active participant in the debates of Leigh Hunts radical intellectual circle, which included William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Hamilton Reynolds, and William Godwin, among others. For more on Keats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_KeatsNo comments: Tuesday, 4 November 2014 Leonard Cohen reading an excerpt from Beatiful Losers
No comments: Tuesday, 14 October 2014 Vietnam Video Project gimme Shelter
No comments: Monday, 12 May 2014 Victor Jara Manifiesto
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