ENGB30 Lecture Notes - Sylvia Plath, Storge
Document Summary
Some significant innovations in shelley"s version of the myth. Prometheus is freed, but not through reconciliation with. Invention of the demogorgon: does not originate from greek mythology, etymology: demons =world/earth; gorgos = terrible/that which strikes terror into. In shelley"s work, demogorgon is described as follows: equated with darkness/ gloom (1. 207; 3. 2. 6, self-identifies as eternity (3. 1. 52, self-identifies as the child of jupiter (3. 1. 54) Prometheus" sense of personal wrong eclipsed by a greater sense of cosmic wrong. Shelley begins by regretting; saying that he takes back his words . Him forgiving zeus is different from giving in to jupiter"s demands. Begins with prometheus regaining consciousness on his crag; ends with prometheus easing free his only action in the poem. Populated only by prometheus, birds, vulture and lizard. Intense sense of repetition, of circular motion: repetition of prometheus on his crag , various explicit references to a return to where one began (ex. Repetition of the vulture constantly returning: reference to ecclesiastes (6)
