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Arnd Bohm Prague spring. A long, hot summer. The German autumn of 1977. The winter of our discontent. The use of the seasons for metaphors and allegories in political discourse is still familiar, but by no means of recent vintage. Season metaphors as in the following observations by William Hazlitt were typical for the Romantics: âyet we will never cease, nor be prevented from returning on the wings of imagination to that bright dream of our youth; that glad dawn of the dayâstar of liberty; that springâtime of the world, in which the hopes and expectations of the human race seemed opening in the same gay career with our own . . . â.1 While the association between spring and a new political order seems natural, it is more difï¬cult to recover the radical politics of autumn, a season that suggests quiet reï¬ection and withdrawal into private spaces, not engagement with the troubled world.2 Not least, Keatsâs poem itself has been used as a pretext for keeping politics out of autumn. The assignment of political meanings to the seasons appears to have begun with winter. The epithet âtyrantâ for winter entered the vocabulary as early as the opening
Romanticism – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jul 1, 2009
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