...words, not lamenting fragmentation but celebrating the freedom of heroism: This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. [Emphasis added] 4 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, 1840 That, however,...

...FILMMAKER'S TROPHY AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. RATED PG-13. To forgive wrongs darker than death or night . . . To love and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates . . . Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free. -Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 570 And...

...To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; . . . wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates from it's own wreck the thing it completes. — PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Prometheus Unbound CHAPTER i No one...

...tyr914 PROMETHEUS UNBOUND army may return and enjoining the dramatis personae, should that return occur, "to hope, till Hope creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates": an injunction at the heart of this radiant and subtle Romantic masterpiece. What makes Prometheus Unbound...

...suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates Prom its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like...

...cite the future imperatives of Shelley's Demogorgon, in act 4 of Prometheus Unbound, To defy Power which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope,...creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. (572-74) its grave," until awakened by Italy's regenerating spring wind. (As Wordsworth himself would...

...suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night: To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope,...creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent: This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be Good, great and joyous,...

...death or night; To defy Power which seems omnipotent . . . Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent, This ... is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful...free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. The work opens with a sense of empty, white wilderness conveyed by a wordless female choir and a wind...

...control to avoid. Likewise, to restore earthly perfection once again, humankind only needs to passively "love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates" (4.573-4). The rhetorical message of Prometheus Unbound, with or without its veil of supernatural allegory,...

...Shelley that identifies hope with creativity, the need, in the face of Jupiter's potential return, 'to hope, till Hope creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates' (Prometheus Unbound, IV, 573—4). Shelley criticises Christianity for its deferral of hope to another...