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Analyse John Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe as an example of satirical verse
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For the purpose of this essay I will analyse Dryden’s poem as an example of satirical verse, with a detailed approach as to how his techniques enhance the textual meaning.

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  • February 19, 2020
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  • 2015/2016
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  • Rachel adcock
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Mac Flecknoe

A Satire upon the True-blue Protestant Poet T.S.



All human things are subject to decay,

And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey:

This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young

Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long:

In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute

Through all the realms of Non-sense, absolute.

This aged prince now flourishing in peace,

And blest with issue of a large increase,

Worn out with business, did at length debate

To settle the succession of the State: 10

And pond'ring which of all his sons was fit

To reign, and wage immortal war with wit;

Cry'd, 'tis resolv'd; for nature pleads that he

Should only rule, who most resembles me:

Shadwell alone my perfect image bears,

Mature in dullness from his tender years.

Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he

Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity.

The rest to some faint meaning make pretence,

But Shadwell never deviates into sense. 20

Some beams of wit on other souls may fall,

Strike through and make a lucid interval;

But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray,

His rising fogs prevail upon the day:

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