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The Hind and the Panther as Dryden's Political Poem
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This essay is designed to view The Hind and the Panther as Dryden's political poem. The poem's immediate occasion was the defence of moderate Catholic position Dryden supported, even though he had regarded the Church of England as the ideal religion in Religio Laici. James II, a Catholic king, succeeded to the throne in 1685; Dryden became a Catholic convert. James proclaimed Declaration for Liberty of Conscience and tried to give freedom of faith to both Catholics and Nonconformists. Radical Catholics supported the King's hasty decision, while moderate Catholics didn't support it because it would attract unfavorable reaction from the nation at large. With this poem Dryden tries to find a solution to this difficult religious and political situation that English Catholics are faced with. He hopes to give political counsel to the prince and aim at national reconciliation in the poem by clinging to the two functions of panegyric. The bird fables of the poem's Third Part offer forebodings of the fate which might await theEnglish Catholics in future. The Hind and the Panther each tell a fable. The Hind's fable tells of swallows persuaded to stay beyond the end of summer by a martin, who seems to represent one of James's advisers, Father Petre, and their subsequent suffering when the winter snows return. The winter snows refer to the reign of a Protestant king in future. At this point Dryden gives political counsel to James II that he should work with Anglicans, not Nonconformists. Dryden thinks James II's hasty policy to free Catholics from the restrictions imposed by the Test Act is a political misjudgment, and presents the Anglican-Catholic alliance as the best way. The Hind's fable tells about a farmyard, presided over by “a Plain Good Man” representing James II, into which the pigeons(or Anglicans) invite a buzzard to overawe the poultry(or Roman Catholics). The buzzard stands for William of Orange. In this context this fable seems based on the rumors that William of Orange was then preparing to invade England. The buzzardseems to establish a tyranny that oppresses all of the farmyard. This fable gives political warning to James II by implying that he would be deposed if he did not reconcile with Anglicans. This final fable also seems to emphasize the national reconciliation of the religious sects that the farm lord expects his birds in his farmyard to learn. Inconclusion, Dryden gives political counsel to James II that he should reconsider the rash policies of his advisers, and presents the reconciliation between Catholics and Anglicans as the best way to avoid the political tensions.
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This essay is designed to view The Hind and the Panther as Dryden's political poem. The poem's immediate occasion was the defence of moderate Catholic position Dryden supported, even though he had regarded the Church of England as the ideal religion in Religio Laici. James II, a Catholic king, succeeded to the throne in 1685; Dryden became a Catholic convert. James proclaimed Declaration for Liberty of Conscience and tried to give freedom of faith to both Catholics and Nonconformists. Radical Catholics supported the King's hasty decision, while moderate Catholics didn't support it because it would attract unfavorable reaction from the nation at large. With this poem Dryden tries to find a solution to this difficult religious and political situation that English Catholics are faced with. He hopes to give political counsel to the prince and aim at national reconciliation in the poem by clinging to the two functions of panegyric. The bird fables of the poem's Third Part offer forebodings of the fate which might await theEnglish Catholics in future. The Hind and the Panther each tell a fable. The Hind's fable tells of swallows persuaded to stay beyond the end of summer by a martin, who seems to represent one of James's advisers, Father Petre, and their subsequent suffering when the winter snows return. The winter snows refer to the reign of a Protestant king in future. At this point Dryden gives political counsel to James II that he should work with Anglicans, not Nonconformists. Dryden thinks James II's hasty policy to free Catholics from the restrictions imposed by the Test Act is a political misjudgment, and presents the Anglican-Catholic alliance as the best way. The Hind's fable tells about a farmyard, presided over by “a Plain Good Man” representing James II, into which the pigeons(or Anglicans) invite a buzzard to overawe the poultry(or Roman Catholics). The buzzard stands for William of Orange. In this context this fable seems based on the rumors that William of Orange was then preparing to invade England. The buzzardseems to establish a tyranny that oppresses all of the farmyard. This fable gives political warning to James II by implying that he would be deposed if he did not reconcile with Anglicans. This final fable also seems to emphasize the national reconciliation of the religious sects that the farm lord expects his birds in his farmyard to learn. Inconclusion, Dryden gives political counsel to James II that he should reconsider the rash policies of his advisers, and presents the reconciliation between Catholics and Anglicans as the best way to avoid the political tensions.
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