Stanza from a Translation of the Marseillaise Hy
A collective speaker commands despised kings and traitors to tremble and declares readiness to fight. If these soldiers fall, the speaker anticipates new fighters pursuing the path toward death or victory.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: War Poetry, Patriotic Literature, Political Poetry · 84 words
First lines
Tremble, Kings despised of man! / Ye traitors to your Country, / Tremble! Your parricidal plan / At length shall meet its destiny... / We all are soldiers fit to fight, / But if we sink in glory's night / Our mother Earth will give ye new / The brilliant pathway to pursue / Which leads to Death or Victory...
Genres
- War Poetry — The text explicitly identifies the speakers as 'soldiers fit to fight' and frames the conflict in terms of 'Death or Victory', utilizing the martial rhetoric typical of war literature.
- Patriotic Literature — The work functions as a translation of the Marseillaise Hymn, addressing 'Kings' and 'traitors to your Country' with revolutionary fervor, aligning it with patriotic and nationalistic verse.
- Political Poetry — The stanza serves as a direct political threat to monarchs and internal enemies, employing the rhetorical devices of an ideological manifesto within a poetic structure.
Tags
revolutionary literature · military verse · political anthem · translation · war rhetoric
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: War Poetry, Patriotic Literature, Political Poetry
- Length: 84 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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