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Anna Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred And Eleven
In Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, Anna Barbauld overtly criticises the on-going Anglo-French war begun in 1793, and satirically attacks England’s public policy of imperialism and militarism. Not only is the poem written by a woman, but it is also purely pessimistic. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven clearly lacks feelings of patriotism, as made evident in Barbauld’s description of England as a crumbling nation in a state of ruin. She shamelessly accuses England’s rulers for the country’s fall; blaming humans for being “bounteous in vain” (11). In lines 241-242, her treasonous sentiments and cynical view of human nature are further brought to light. In other words, “The Genius now forsakes the favored shore, and hates, capricious, what he loved before,”
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