The patriot poem explanation in English line by line
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Stanza 1
The patriot says that one year before this very day, there were roses, roses, all the way with myrtle mixed in his path. The line means that one year before the patriot was welcomed with roses on his way when he returned back after his grand victory.
Not only the roses but white fragrant myrtle flowers were also spread across his way. The people of his country or city were so much excited over seeing him that they were madly spreading these beautiful and fragrant flowers in his way in order to celebrate his victory.
There were so much people on the house roofs that it seemed that they are moving like oscillator because of overweight. Even the spires (top) of Church seemed to be burning as they were laden with the flags (that were raised to celebrate his victory).
Stanza 2
According to the patriot, the air broke into a mist with bells meaning that the sound of the bells (which were ringing in the honour of his victory). The cries of joy were so loud that they shook the walls of the houses.
The people were so much happy that if the patriot would have asked them to bring him the sun from the skies, they would have replied And afterward, what else? In other words, they were willing to do whatever the patriot would have said.
Stanza 3
The scene now shifts to one year later on the same day. The patriot sighs Alack in grief. According to him, he leaped at the sun to give it to his loving friends to keep. It was quite a difficult task which no one else could have done if he had left it undone.
The idea of leaping at the sun has been borrowed from the Greek Tale of Icarus. Icarus tried flying high by sticking wings to his arms using wax. He was successful in flying up. However, when he flew more and more up (closer to the sun), the wax began melting away and finally the wings got detached from his body. He fell down and died.
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The moral of this Greek Tale is that one should never do something beyond limits or else it leads to his downfall. The patriot also repents for doing too much for his country and people. Having done too much, he now repents over his struggle as it has led him to face this day (on which he was executed).
Stanza 4
The patriot says that now there’s nobody on the house-tops unlike the last year and just some people on the windows who seem to be palsied or paralysed i.e. they are without any pity or love for the patriot. They are the only ones who couldn’t go to the place where the patriot is going to be hanged publicly.
According to him, the people have gathered at the Shambles’ Gate; the place where people are hanged. The patriot is also being dragged towards scaffold (wooden platform for hanging people).
Stanza 5
It is raining cats and dogs. His hands have been tied behind with a rope which is so tight that the patriot feels as if his wrists have been cut opened by it. As he is walking towards the scaffold, the people are throwing stones at him.
Having his head down because of humiliation he is just feeling the stones which have made his forehead bleed. He is not angry at all because he considers this pain, blood and humiliation as the punishment for some misdeed which he committed in the past (he doesn’t mention that deed).
Stanza 6
In the final stanza, the Patriot has reached the scaffold and executed. Even the people have dropped down dead in triumph (of punishing the traitor by throwing stones).
The Patriot thinks that God may ask him what else he needs as he has been punished by the world. He is now free from the hypocrisy of the world and thus quite safer in heaven. The poem hence ends in peace. Here is the analysis of the poem.