Fic: . Archie and the Tyger a sonnet
This sonnet is part of a larger piece which is the menagerie fic series where Horatio and Archie and their colleaguse
become involved with the managerie of creatures their captain had brought home. Such an incident really occurred and Pellew did on more than one occasion import a tiger .
Eventually the fic will see the light of day but Archie's sonnet thoughts as he sees the caged tyger have made their way here so I thought I could at least contribute something after such a while.
Author: nodbear
Word lengh : another 14 lines
Gen Context, Wakeful beside a sleeping Horatio, Archie writes a sonnet based on how he has felt about the caged tiger. Archie has been absorbing Blakes poem, written a few years before and and he has several other influences as you will see.
Readers nmay also like to know = this latter inforamtion comse from the valiant and lovely volgivagant
- she tells me that for fans of the cultured Major Edrington, he can bear heard reading The Tyger by Blake
here
and To a Caged Tyger
is under the cut
The Caged Tyger
The mind of man may bars of iron dissolve
his heart can conquer prisons made from stone
or so implied the poets song. Resolve
to make that true is needed. Not alone
mere will: imagination too, a flight
of known envisioned freedom. Cogito
Ergo? What ?- libertus sum. At the sight
Of you, so lithe and sunlit- striped I know
Such silent shaking anger:. Helpless, proud
and pacing, quartering your cage, confused,
your noble frame is fearful not yet bowed
by captive state. Too soon you will grow used
to one small barrèd room. I catch my breath
Poor Tyger; freedom only found in death.
AK, on seeing a captive tyger,Falmouth 1797
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become involved with the managerie of creatures their captain had brought home. Such an incident really occurred and Pellew did on more than one occasion import a tiger .
Eventually the fic will see the light of day but Archie's sonnet thoughts as he sees the caged tyger have made their way here so I thought I could at least contribute something after such a while.
Author: nodbear
Word lengh : another 14 lines
Gen Context, Wakeful beside a sleeping Horatio, Archie writes a sonnet based on how he has felt about the caged tiger. Archie has been absorbing Blakes poem, written a few years before and and he has several other influences as you will see.
Readers nmay also like to know = this latter inforamtion comse from the valiant and lovely volgivagant
- she tells me that for fans of the cultured Major Edrington, he can bear heard reading The Tyger by Blake
here
and To a Caged Tyger
is under the cut
The Caged Tyger
The mind of man may bars of iron dissolve
his heart can conquer prisons made from stone
or so implied the poets song. Resolve
to make that true is needed. Not alone
mere will: imagination too, a flight
of known envisioned freedom. Cogito
Ergo? What ?- libertus sum. At the sight
Of you, so lithe and sunlit- striped I know
Such silent shaking anger:. Helpless, proud
and pacing, quartering your cage, confused,
your noble frame is fearful not yet bowed
by captive state. Too soon you will grow used
to one small barrèd room. I catch my breath
Poor Tyger; freedom only found in death.
AK, on seeing a captive tyger,Falmouth 1797
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