...possibility, that the only state beyond that of materiality and temporality is the state of death. O cease! must hate and death return? Cease! must men...Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, O might it die or rest at last! (1096-1101) The vision of these lines is the Promethean vision applied...

...impermanence by the very nature of human life. Why, therefore, should the world begin again? He cries: The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last! Yet this last cry seems nihilistic and even sentimental. It is L'Homme Révolté among the broken images,...

...expression of weariness with the cyclic patterns, a weariness that projects itself as the desperate cry, O cease! must hate and death return? Cease! must men...weary of the past, Oh might it die or rest at last! (lines 1096-101) Like the goddess Urania in Adonais, the poet of Hellas is tormented by two opposing...

...for the total past and future course of history, poised uncertainly between idyll and catastrophe. O cease! must hate and death return? Cease! must men...Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, O might it die or rest at last! (1096-1101; N) All that can call a term to the hopeful or gloomy attempt...

...stage ready to stop the war but unable to, the chorus relinquishes its position and disavows its role: "Cease! Drain not to its dregs the urn / Of bitter prophecy. / The world is weary of the past, / O might it die or rest at last!" (ll. 1097-1 101). To acknowledge that Hellas s weaving together...