PATRIOT INTO TRAITOR BY ROBERT BROWNING

Thus I entered --------- dropped down dead.

REFERENCE

(i) Poem: Patriot into Traitor

(ii) Poet: Robert Browning

CONTEXT

(i) Occurrence: Lines 26-27/30

(ii) Content: In this poem the poet narrates the story of the rise and fall of a political leader. A year ago, people considered him a great patriot but now he is going to be hanged by the same people. Thus he waits for the judgment of God to redeem him. 

EXPLANATION

     In these lines the poet sums up the political career and humble wish of a leader. This leader, one year earlier, had entered the city as an acclaimed hero and patriot. He served his masses whole-heatedly for a whole year. But after a year, he had to go to the scaffold in thorough disgrace because his erstwhile devotees had stigmatized him as a traitor. While going to the scaffold, the leader wished if he would have died at the moment of his great triumph like some of the heroes in history, for example Quaid-e-Azam, it would have been better for him. He wanted to receive full reward of his struggle in this very world but his wish remained unfulfilled.

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