ENG 565A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Utopia, Dialectic
5 Apr 2016
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Kant says of the human race, in connection with the mixture of good and evil in his predisposition he himself does not know what effect he might expect from it (301). This connects to the mixture of good and evil throughout barbauld"s poem. However, the poem ends with the words, thy world, colombus, shall be free. this closing statement leaves the reader with the feeling of optimism after the battle and rising from ashes. White discusses different types of narratives and the different implications they bring. Fruitful in vain, the matron counts with pride the blooming youths that grace her honoured side; no son returns to press her widowed hand, her fallen blossoms strew a foreign strand. Barbauld- governing bodies force the people into war. French revolution was followed by terror, a free people was built out of it: top of 30- nothing can be static, everything contains its opposite.
