Pen vs. Sword

Wiley 2022-03-26 09:01:10

"Have words ever won a kingdom?" asked the Earl of Essex, who lost his head later.

It is not uncommon for the words of a poet to trump the deeds of a prince. So the movie goes down this road again, giving one end of the weight little by little weight. how about this? how about this? Now, can you still say that a poet's quill is stronger than a sword?

Take away your pride as a poet, take away your love, take away your property, and almost take away your son... so what? And self-esteem. William Cecil's daughter roared at him, "Why are you humiliating my family?!" The hunchbacked Robert Cecil said to him, you could have become a king, but you have become such a king waste.

So, at that time, watching the Earl of Essex bow his head in surrender, power gone, nothing left, and in the end only his poetry and drama. Elizabeth said: You cannot sign any work.


So words have never won kingdoms, and in turn, words have to be won by losing a kingdom. As a result, they took off their mortal body and the author's mortal body, and only after being tempered by fire did they emerge into their final appearance.



No gravestone of marble or gold of princes
can live longer than these mighty poems of mine;
you shall shine in these poems forever
more than a stone smeared by time.
In the face of brutal war to overthrow the bronze statue,
or infighting to turn the city into ruins,
neither the sword of the god of war nor the flames of war
can destroy the living history of your legacy.
Break through death and the hatred that annihilates all, and
you will stand up: your praise
will shine in the eyes of all generations,
until the end of the world when it is exhausted.
In this way, until the Last Judgment wakes you up,
you grow in poetry and in the eyes of lovers.

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  • Anne De Vere: You, your friends, your blasphemous theater have brought nothing but ruin and dishonor to this family.

    Ben Jonson: Ruin? Dishonor? My lady, you, your family, even I, even Queen Elizabeth herself will be remembered solely because we had the honor to live whilst your husband put ink to paper.

  • Earl of Oxford: All art is political, Jonson. Otherwise it would just be decoration.