This poem compares twelve owls flflying from the hand of one character to Romulus spotting the omen of twelve circlingvultures.
This poem compares twelve owls flflying from the hand of one character to Romulus spotting the omen of twelve circlingvultures. Early in this poem, the speaker recounts playing the lute for King John I for Portugal on the same day as the title character'sappearance on a barge, which made the "treble squeak" for fear and the "basses roar." Another section of this poemdetails how, from the ruins of a watch tower, there arose "brothel-houses," home to "scenes of lewd loves, and of pollutedjoys." This poem's addressee is enthroned next to Ascanius during a ceremony in which he holds a bottle of ale in his leftft handinstead of a scepter. The "drugget robe" belonging to this poem's title character is "born upwards by a subterranean wind"after Bruce and Longvil spring a trapdoor to make him disappear. This satire begins by comparing its subject to Augustus,stating "when Fate summons, monarchs must obey," after the opening line "All human things are subject to decay." It latercalls that poet laureate "the last great prophet of tautology." For 10 points, name this iceburn of Thomas Shadwell, a mockepicpoem by John Dryden.
This poem compares twelve owls flflying from the hand of one character to Romulus spotting the omen of twelve circlingvultures.
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