theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context "","""Why should I drag along this life I hate, / Without one thought to mitigate the weight? / Whence this mysterious bearing to exist, / When every joy is lost, and every hope dismissed? / In chains and darkness wherefore should I stay, / And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?""",4849,Fetters,Reading,12943,2009-09-14 19:37:34 UTC,2013-11-11 22:19:21 UTC,2004-11-18,"•""Alond""? FIXED.
•This is not an explicit metaphor. The metaphor is attached to the pronoun and not to one of my keywords. This is the sort of metaphor my search protocol misses.","Yet one short moment would at once explain
What all philosophy has sought in vain,
Would clear all doubt and terminate all pain.

Why then not hasten that decisive hour,
Still in my view, and ever in my power?
Why should I drag along this life I hate,
Without one thought to mitigate the weight?
Whence this mysterious bearing to exist,
When every joy is lost, and every hope dismissed?
In chains and darkness wherefore should I stay,
And mourn in prison, while I keep the key?

(ll. 17-27, p. 69 in Lonsdale edition)",""