The poet's use of allusion provides the reader with the need to see beyond the obvious. the chance to develop an appreciation for nature. a short diversion into Greek mythology. aspirations of hope and faith. a sense of both the supernatural and natural.

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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