patriot into traitor full summary and explanation

 

 

Patriot into Traitor 

 

Introduction of the poet

 

Robert Browning may be a great English poet of the nineteenth century. He gave vent to his heartfelt passion in his poems and gave a philosophical touch to them. His ideas impress us and provide a philosophical touch to them. His ideas impress us and supply a flash of thought. Within the present poem, he draws a sensible picture of the increase and fall of a politician whose life is governed by political conquest and defeats.
Introduction of the poem
Robert Browning is extremely famous for his Dramatic Monologue. Dramatic The monologue may be a method of narration. A personality comments on a situation that's conflicting in its nature. Actually, it's an indirect method of narration during which the speaker is that the spokesman of the poet.
Summary
This poem is written in dramatic monologue. During this poem, a pacesetter comments on this situation and contrasts it with past events. This leader was once considered a patriot, but now he has been branded as a traitor. The poem presents the political situation of the Third World countries. In these countries, political affiliations are often bought for petty benefits.

A politician is being taken to the gallows. He recalls the events of the past year when skilled equivalent streets. He was welcomed warmly by the people. His path was filled with roses and myrtle. an outsized number of individuals shouted slogans in favour of this leader. They were able to obey him through thick and thin. This leader did his best to swerve his people. However, the results of his [pains weren't favourable.

He has been branded a traitor. His bands are tied tightly behind his back. The people have gathered at the Shamble’s gate to ascertain the hanging of a traitor. They throw stones at him.

The poem, however, ends with a note of optimism. The leader leaves his case to God. He believes that it's better to be paid within the next world than during this one.
A Critical Note on “The patriot into Traitor”
The poem, ‘Patriot into Traitor ‘gives us the image of a politician who suffers a downfall in his career quite dramatically. The frustration of the politician has been described graphically and realistically. The poet has described the subsequent ideas within the poem in a sensible manner.

The poet tells us that uneducated people don't judge justly. The people welcome the politician with great enthusiasm. This shows that the politician becomes a victim of the judgment of the common misdeeds.

This shows that the politician becomes a victim of the judgment of the common masses. The poem tells us many things about the immature and shaky judgment of folk. Uneducated people change their behaviour consistent with the circumstance.

The poem is additionally a criticism of the facility worship. As long as man is in power, everyone supports and loves him. he's respected and loved. But when a person is out of power, all his supporters leave him. The politician is welcomed with great love and enthusiasm as te steps into power. When he's taken to gallows, he's left alone and is deserted by everyone.

Browning’s poetry is filled with hope and optimism. He wants to say man’s faith in God the heroes of his poetry don't lose heart in face of hardships and trials. His poetry suggests we face hardships patiently.

The politician faces disgrace at the top. He’s getting to be stoned at. But he still has faith in the reward of God. they're sadly mistaken at it But he hopes that God will reward him for his service to the general public within the world hereafter. He accepts the gallows with the facility of conviction and faith.

" (Reference to the Context)

Reference: this is often stanza has been taken from the poem Patriot into Traitor” written by Browning.


Context: This poem may be a criticism of politics and people’s opinions. When a pacesetter comes into power, people call him a patriot. When he's dethroned, an equivalent leader is taken into account as a traitor. this is often the tragedy of recent politics. The leader during this poem fell a victim to an equivalent state of affairs. When he came into power, people showered flowers at him as a patriot. But after a year, they declared him a traitor, when he was no more in power. They took him to the gallows. But Browning has ended his poem not on a tragic, rather on a next world optimistic note.

Stanza 1

 

It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad:
The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway,
The church-spires flames, such flags they had,
A year ago on this very day.

Explanation:
In these lines, the poet says through the mouth of a politician, when for the primary time, just one year ago, thereon very day, he came to power, the people gave him a really warm welcome. There have been roses mixed with myrtle flowers which individuals spread on their way through and thru. The house-tops were crowded with people and that they were moving and swinging like hell people. Also, they were so happy as if they were mad. The minarets and domes of churches were shining with light. These churches were decorated with colourful flags. All this was thereon very day when the politician came into power and it happened just one year ago.

Stanza 2

The air broke into a mist with bells,
The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries.
Had I said, "Good fold, mere noise repels--
But give me your sun from yonder skies!"
They had answered, "And afterwards, what else?"

When the people got him a warm welcome they rang bells and raised slogans. These different voices mingled with each other and produced a kind of music. The air became misty and heavy due to the noisy slogans and therefore the ringing bells. The slogans of the gang were so heavy and loud that the adjacent walls of the roadside houses trembled with various cries and noise of the gang. These people were welcoming him so happy that if he had told them that mere noise and slogans didn't please him. Which they ought to give him the sun, that's there within the sky distant from them, they might have replied, that was executed (done and what else they might do for him ‘the leader’).
Stanza 3

Alack, it was I who leapt at the sun
To give it to my loving friends to keep!
The nought man could do, have I left undone:
And you see my harvest, what I reap
This very day, now a year is run.

In these lines, the leader regretfully says that the people didn't help him, instead, it had been he who leapt at the sun and made it impossible, possible for them. He brought the sundown and handed it over to his dear friends (countrymen). He made them realize that each impossible might be made
possible for sincere friends. intrinsically he made every effort and didn't leave anything undone for them. Had he left anything undone, nobody else would have done that for them. But he further says with great sorrow that today when just one year has lapsed which he's no more in a chair, his reward is often seen. It also can be seen what he's reaping as a gift of his deeds. He has been branded as a traitor by the people of his nation.
Stanza 4

There's nobody on the house-tops now--
Just a palsied few at the windows set;
For the best of the sight is, all allow,
At the Shambles' Gate-- or, better yet,
By the very scaffold's foot. I trow.
In these lines, the poet mourns that no one is often seen on the housetops to welcome him now. It’s quite opposite to the scene when he was received by them. Now there are only a couple of people, who are rather paralyzed and are standing at the windows. Now they're watching a special sight. This site may be a kind of ridicule and everybody agrees thereto.
Obviously, the sight is horrible because the leader is now being taken to the slaughterhouse, or it is often better said, the leader thinks, that he's being taken to the gallows to be hanged there. it's all the reward of his good deeds. His deeds are converted into wicked deeds and other people are now punishing him for his supposed misdeeds.
Stanza 5

I go in the rain, and more than needs,
A rope cuts both my wrists behind;
And think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds,
For they fling, whoever has a mind,
Stones at me for my year's misdeeds.

In these lines, the poet also mopes over his sad condition. He says that the people are carrying him to the gallows within the rain. They unnecessarily have tied his hands behind his back with a decent rope. once they are taking him to the slaughterhouse, the rope cuts his both hands at wrists. The culprit (the leader) feels that his forehead is bleeding. this is often because everybody in his right sense is throwing stones at him. Everybody feels that he has done nothing for his countrymen. everyone has turned against him and therefore the achievements of his past year are changed to misdeeds. this suggests they need to be forgotten his service to them and that they are now punishing him for his good work for them.

 Stanza 6

Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead.
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me?"-- God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

In the given lines the poet, through the mouth of the deposed leader says that he was brought honourably to the chair and with great pomp and show but now he's being taken very insultingly to the gallows. He says sometimes great heroes fall from their climax and die. Such has not happened to him. Had he died within the peak of his power, he would have
been happy. Further, the leader ridiculously says that heroes can't expect a reward from God within the next world because they get their reward during this world. In his case, people haven't done him justice. they need to kill him. He says after death he will attend his Lord Creator where God Might question him about his deeds he had finished the people. He would
reply that he had done his best for them but they rewarded him with shame. Now he will ask God for a gift because God is simply and He would give him the simplest reward within the other world for his service to his people. He would be safe with God within the world hereafter.