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Jun 18, 2015 · ‘Crowning carnage’. William Wordsworth’s major poetic response to the Battle of Waterloo was the poem generally known by the shortened title of “ ”, written seven months after the battle on...
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The Eve Of Waterloo There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium’s capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o’er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a ...
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It relates the events of the night before the battle of Quatre Bras, which was fought near Brussels, the capital of Belgium, on June 16, 1815, and was the preliminary of the great battle of Waterloo, fought two days later.
Victor Hugo. Translated by Timothy Adès. Waterloo! disastrous field! Like a wave swelling in an urn brim-filled, Your ring of hillsides, valleys, woods and heath. Saw grim battalions snarled in pallid death. On this side France, against her Europe stood: God failed the heroes in the clash of blood! Fate played the coward, victory turned tail.
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The opening stanza of the poem The Eve of Waterloo accentuates the love and romance where the ‘sound of revelry’ was overwhelming the ballrooms of Lady Charlotte the night before the battle in Brussels. The fair dames and the officers from Brussels, Belgium’s capital had gathered and they looked bright. The lamps filling the ballrooms were shining ...
The second stanza of ‘The Eve of Waterloo’ begins here. People engrossed in the merriment ignored the sound of the cannon. When asked about if they heard it they said it was the wind or the car rattling over the stony street. They chose to continue to dance to let the endless joy continue till the revelry ends in the morning. Here, the poet uses th...
Within the windowed enclosure of the high halls of the ballroom, the chieftain of Brunswick (Duke of Brunswick) Fredrick Williams stood sated. He was the first to hear the sound amidst all the festivities. He caught the tone of the sound. The figure of speech employed in ‘Death’s prophetic ear’ are personification and metaphor. It implies his famil...
This stanza of ‘The Eve of Waterloo’ marks the chaos that ensued in the ballrooms with the information that Napoleon’s army was advancing towards the city. People were hurrying to and fro, moving without knowing where to go. The eyes of the women were filling with tears and they were trembling with distress. Their cheeks, which an hour ago were blu...
The fifth stanza deals with the preparation of war and the alertness all around. The officers quickly and hastily mounted their horses (steed), the squadron mustered and the clattering car speeded forward with impetuous speed. The men swiftly formed into the ranks of war while the deep thunder peal rang over and over from afar. Meanwhile, the beat ...
The wild and high notes of the bagpipes of the Camerons (a clan of Scottish Highlanders) playing the war-song ‘Cameron’s Gathering’ which was also the war-note of Lochiel (the chief of the Cameron clan) rose high. It was often heard in the Albyn’s (Gaelic name for Scotland) hills and was also heard by their Saxon (a Germanic tribe) foes. The poet i...
In the seventh stanza of ‘The Eve of Waterloo’, the poet makes a skillful use of pathetic fallacy (a literary device used to attribute human feelings to inanimate objects nature, animals etc.) in order to evoke readers’ sympathy for those young soldiers who just left the pleasure of a merry, happy life to participate in a war against their enemies....
This last stanza is all about summarizing the sudden turns of the events of the night from happy laughter and chivalry to uncertainty, despair and violence in a poignant manner. Just the last noon the young men and women were looking at a life of lust; the last evening in women’s circle was full of happiness and gaiety. While the midnight brought t...
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Analysis (ai): "The Eve of Waterloo" is a poem that contrasts the joy of a ball on the eve of battle with the sudden onset of war. Unlike Byron's other works, this poem focuses on a specific historical event. It captures the jarring transition from revelry to the terror of war.
Dec 19, 2011 · The Field of Waterloo; A Poem. By Walter Scott, Esq. Edinburgh; Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. For Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; And Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and John Murray, London, 1815. On hearing the news of the Allied victory at Waterloo (June 18, 1815), Scott burned to see the scene of Napoleon's final defeat ...
