Analysis Of The Proud King by William Morris

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The Proud King by William Morris is a 819-line-long poem about a proud king named Jovinian whose pride led him comparing himself to God. Larger lenght of the poem shows him suffer his pride until he repented and regained his crown, thrown and status.

This poem by William Morris is a narrative poetry, and its language seems elizabethan in nature. The poem in part reckons with God which leads us to the Theme of Divine Punishment in The Proud King by William Morris besides that, there are other themes [Themes Of The Proud King By William Morris] about The Proud King by William Morris.

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Few of the figures of speech in the poem The Proud King are as follows:-
(1) Allusion: To be precise, the poem has a biblical allusion in lines 299-300 "_Well; _if thou canst, deny me, with such grace/ As by the fire-light Peter swore of old". It alluded to Peter's denial of Jesus Christ in John 18: 25-26.

(2) Enjambment: "And thinking of his life, and fair increase/ Of all his goods, a happy man was he" (lines 248-249) is one among the enjambments in the poem.

(3) Rhetorical Questions: The poem "The Proud King" by William Morris also has so many instances of rhetorical questions and as well known, few of the traits of dramatic monologue are rhetorical questions and direct quotations. In lines 633-636 "And said "Alas! my master and my son/ Is this a dream my wearied eyes behold?..."

(4) Irony:- Precisely the use of dramatic irony in the poem. The concept of the king's identity seems ironic in the sense that only the king and the readers of the poem understood the king's predicament; no one else.

(5) Repetition:- There are many instances of repetition in the poem, most the repetition of words and phrases such as "king" "robe" "God" "forgetting" etc.

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