LYMPHATIC
SPLEEN
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Question
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In which stanzas does the poet speak of oppression?
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When the low and heavy sky weighs like a lid On the groaning mind prey to long troubles, And when from the horizon embracing the whole circle, It pours us a black day sadder than the nights
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When the earth is turned into a damp dungeon, Where Hope, like a bat, Goes away beating the walls with its timid wing And banging its head on rotten ceilings
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When the rain spreading its immense streaks From a vast prison imitates the bars, And when a mute people of infamous spiders Comes to spread its nets in the depths of our brains
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Suddenly bells leap furiously And send a terrible howl to the sky, As well as wandering and homeless spirits Who begin to moan stubbornly
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And long hearses, without drums or music, Pass slowly through my soul; Hope, Defeated, weeps, and atrocious, despotic Anguish, On my tilted skull plants its black flag
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Despite the speaker’s preliminary evocation of an ideal world, The Flowers of Evil’s inevitable focus is the speaker’s “spleen, ” a symbol of fear, agony, melancholy, moral degradation, destruction of the spirit–everything that is wrong with the world.
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