what is the message of the poem the patriot
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The poem, 'The Patriot' by Robert Browning is primarily based on the theme of rising and the fall of fortune. A patriot can be acclaimed one day but can be degraded the very next day.
In the poem, the narrator, who happens to be the patriot is initially welcomed with joy and paths of roses by the people around him. But, by the end of the poem we get a glimpse that those same people who acclaimed him have humiliated and also executed him, within a span of a year.
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Poem ‘The Patriot’ by Robert Browning depicts the condition of a man who sacrificed his everything for his countrymen, but yet was punished by them. A year ago he was loved by them; but after a year he was chained and taken to the scaffolds to be hanged. People were throwing stones at him.
The speaker learnt that people of this world can never judge or pay us for our deeds; it is God who ultimately rewards us or punishes us. The speaker hopes to be rewarded by God.