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MANFRED by GEORGE MEREDITH

Poet Analysis

First Line: PROJECTED FROM THE BILIOUS CHILDE
Last Line: AN AFTER-DINNER'S INDIGEST.
Subject(s): ALPS; BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788-1824); MOUNTAINS; POETRY & POETS; BYRON, GEORGE GORDON BYRON, 6TH BARON; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);

I

PROJECTED from the bilious Childe,
This clatterjaw his foot could set
On Alps, without a breast beguiled
To glow in shedding rascal sweat.
Somewhere about his grinder teeth,
He mouthed of thoughts that grilled beneath,
And summoned Nature to her feud
With bile and buskin Attitude.

II

Considerably was the world
Of spinsterdom and clergy racked
While he his hinted horrors hurled,
And she pictorially attacked.
A duel hugeous. Tragic? Ho!
The cities, not the mountains, blow
Such bladders; in their shapes confessed
An after-dinner's indigest.



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