"Then, while each hideous image to his mind, / Rises terrific, o'er a bleeding corse / Stumbling he falls."
— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
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Date
1793, 1797
Metaphor
"Then, while each hideous image to his mind, / Rises terrific, o'er a bleeding corse / Stumbling he falls."
Metaphor in Context
He sees that devastation has been there;
Then, while each hideous image to his mind,
Rises terrific, o'er a bleeding corse
Stumbling he falls; another intercepts
His staggering feet.--All, all who used to rush
With joy to meet him, all his family
Lie murdered in his way!--And the day dawns
On a wild raving Maniac, whom a fate
So sudden and calamitous has robbed
Of reason; and who round his vacant walls
Screams unregarded, and reproaches Heaven!
(ll. 5-19, p. 371)
Then, while each hideous image to his mind,
Rises terrific, o'er a bleeding corse
Stumbling he falls; another intercepts
His staggering feet.--All, all who used to rush
With joy to meet him, all his family
Lie murdered in his way!--And the day dawns
On a wild raving Maniac, whom a fate
So sudden and calamitous has robbed
Of reason; and who round his vacant walls
Screams unregarded, and reproaches Heaven!
(ll. 5-19, p. 371)
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Citation
Ed., Roger Lonsdale Eighteenth Century Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
See also Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets: and Other Poems 8th ed. (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797). <Link to Vol. I in Google Books> <Link to Vol. II in Google Books>
See also Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets: and Other Poems 8th ed. (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1797). <Link to Vol. I in Google Books> <Link to Vol. II in Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/28/2003
