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In this article I will consider Wordsworth’s attitude to the French Revolutionary Wars in “A Night on Salisbury Plain” (NSP). Certainly NSP is an anti-war poem as critics have observed. But I would like to focus on fear in NSP and suggest that anti-war sympathy of the poem is strengthened by the fear of the war and bloodshed, by which Wordsworth was tormented while he was on Salisbury Plain. Wordsworth in NSP was afraid of the ongoing war, and therefore the poet opposed the war; the fear disturbed the balance of his mind. Wordsworth’s anti-war sentiment in NSP cannot be thought of as empty or insincere because the poem is the result of his own suffering or his agonizing imagining of the brutalities of war. Wordsworth’s recognition of the brutalities of the ongoing war led the poet to revise his thoughts about the French Revolution. While he stayed in France in 1791 and 1792, he witnessed, for example, the brutalities on the Gironde and the mass executions of them by guillotine, and the experience led the poet to think again about the revolutionary violence and the brutalities of the war; it was the driving force behind the composition of NSP, where the poet bitterly criticized the ongoing war.

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I. Introduction
 II. Wordsworth’s Anti-war Sentiment and Fear in “A Night on Salisbury Plain”
 III. On Salisbury Plain
 IV. Conclusion
 Works Cited
 Abstract

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• Im, Bora [ 임보라 | Chonbuk National University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810