M&M

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Thu Feb 22 22:49:28 PST 2001


What I recall from Shelley after Peterloo (quoting from memory) is

I met Murder on the way -

He had a mask like Dr. Dre -

Very smooth he looked, yet grim;

Seven blood-hounds followed him...

[one probably Snoop Dogg], etc., etc.

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:


> CounterPunch wrote:
>
> >It's one thing to defend Eminem against censorship-quite another to
> >promote, as Chaucer would say, "the sentence" or message of his
> >lyrics. Remember the lines by Shelley, dashed off in a hour of rage
> >following the Peterloo Massacre--the WTO protest of its day, where
> >40,000 protesters and laborers were trampled by English police on
> >horseback. Try to find any similar sentiments in Eminem. Here are
> >two stanzas: "The seed ye sow, another reaps; / the wealth ye find,
> >another keeps; / the robes ye weave, another wears; / the arms ye
> >forge, another bears. // Sow seed-but let no tyrant reap; / Find
> >wealth-let no imposter heap: / Weave robes-let not the idle wear; /
> >Forge arms-in your defence to bear."
>
> Those are the first lines I think of when I hear Eminem too!
>
> Doug
>



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