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In this poem, ‘My Days among the Dead are Past’, Robert Southey speaks from the point of view of a man who identifies with the dead rather than the living. He walks among them, talks with them, and counts himself as one of them. He learns from their lives, and he knows that his future is with them.
By Robert Southey. My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel. How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd
My thoughts are with the Dead, with them I live in long-past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind. My hopes are with the Dead, anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity; Yet leaving here a ...
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In response, Southey attacked what he called the Satanic School among modern poets in the preface to his poem, A Vision of Judgement, written after the death of George III. While not naming Byron, it was clearly directed at him.
Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate. 1790s If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
