A Decade Of Slumber

I will attempt to dig up what skills I have retained from Kindergarten to illustrate my E2, Revelation, After the Fact?s point that The Mask of Anarchy was, due to the tremendous delays stemming from censorship and Percy Bysshe Shelley?s disconnect from England, ultimately isolated from the event which inspired it, allowing it to be treated as an independent, universal piece rather than just a topical denouncement. In order to properly illustrate this, I plan on taking a splash page of images from the Peterloo massacre, and slowly bury the image in pages of wax paper marked with portions of the poem pertaining to it?s publication. The final page will have the complete poem and the almost completely obscured image of the Peterloo massacre beneath, denoting the poem?s gradual independence from history.

The Event
Lying Asleep in Italy
Receiving the News
Righteous Indignation
Composing the Poem
Shelley's Impotence
Dangerous Times
Shelley, Silenced
Repeated Failure
The Dust of Death
Upon the Unpublished
Triumph
Universal Acceptance
The Poem as Isolated from the Event