...with well-known lines from Demogorgon's last speech about the power of love, forgiveness, and hope: "To defy power which seems omnipotent — /To love,...creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates" (81/309). This kind of hope is called "Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free."37 This element...

...Facets of Hope F. BERYL PILKINGTON Who against hope believed in hope. Romans 4:18 (King James Version) To hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound. Act iv, 1. 573 The subject of hope has been widely discussed in the popular...

...the forces which struck out against them. The final passage of Prometheus Unbound offered solutions: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free. This is alone Life, Joy,...

...her with his length, These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy,...

...before I die." And he introduced me to his favourite quotation from Percy Shelley, which became my own. To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite, To forgive...death or night, To defy power which seems omnipotent, Never to change, nor falter, nor repent. This is to be good, great and joyous, beautiful and free,...

...a Turgenev struggling in private doubt to create a new form of theater with A Month in the Country* "To hope, till hope creates from its own wreck, the thing it contemplates," Shelley wrote. Never seeing his one great play staged as he imagined, the despairing Turgenev looked...

...essence of Shelley's own spiritual vision, are declared by Demogorgon in the poem's closing lines: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan [= Prometheus] , is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is...

...possibilities; above all, a new way of seeing the world. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinire; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omniporent; To love, and beat; to hope till Hope cteares From its own wreck the thing it conremplares;...

...confidence in the undeveloped potentialities of the human spirit may be the means of developing them. We "hope, till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates." An optimistic appraisal of human potentialities may therefore create its own verification. But individual...

...Shelley's Prometheus Unbound [1819]. Wise users, I think, will recognize themselves in these lines: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope itself creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;...