"All humane things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey"

MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

2.

          All humane things are subject to decay,

And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey:

Ans :

These lines are taken from John Dryden’s verse mock-heroic satire, Mac Flecknoe. "Mac Flecknoe" is the outcome of a series of disagreements between Thomas Shadwell and Dryden. The poem illustrates Shadwell as the heir to a kingdom of poetic dullness, represented by his association with Richard Flecknoe, an earlier poet already satirized by Andrew Marvell and disliked by Dryden, although the poet does not use belittling techniques to satirize him.

Dryden begins with a lofty commentary on mortality, God, and kings, his introduction to what we can only assume will be a grandiose epic of Homeric proportions.............

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