While in America we celebrate the 4th of July as our day of Independence. In France, they have a day similar that is known as Bastille Day. This day is in celebration for the start of The French Revolution. Where on July 14th of 1789, rioters and revolutionaries stormed the fortress, turned prison, known as Bastille. The reason for doing this was to gather weapons and gunpowder from the prison in order for the people to arm themselves from the oncoming Revolution. Why did the people want a Revolution though? During this time, France was going through some major food shortages as well as they were feeling the weight of the taxes that were put up by King Louis XVI to cover his vast amount of debts. This led to the people of France to be quite upset with the ruling Monarchy, and they decided to put an end to it, starting with the Storming of the Bastille.
The Storming of Bastille led to many events coming into motion. One of these very famous events is known as the writing of The Declaration of the Rights of Man. Which, while being influenced by America's Declaration of Independence, was still inspirational and an amazing step forward for politics all throughout Europe. Giving freedom to the people of France the same way that America had given freedom to it's people. While not being completely the same, they did have some similar ideas. Some of these ideas involved not disquieting those who spoke, and wrote, their mind in regards to religious views as well as to print and write freely.
These ideas and polocies that were put into place were very helpful in forwarding a path in Romantic Poetry, specifically for Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Before the Declaration of the Rights of Man was put into place, people would be disquited about any ideas and writing that was specifically against the Catholic Church's beliefs. Although, now that the Declaration was being put into practice, Shelley and Keats were able to write certain poems that had religions that disagreed with the Catholic Church. These involved Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, as well as Keats' epic fragment, The Fall of Hyperion. Both of which use Greek Mythology in their story telling.
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