ABSTRACT

This chapter contains a wide variety of rich literature from before the war and was designed to give soldiers entertainment. It presents the work of The Universal Chorus from Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The chapter concerns torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus, who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity, for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus. In the work of Universal Chorus it describes that the Panthea and Ione interrupt the Earth and the Moon by the passing of the music as a nymph rising from water. Demogorgon appears and speaks to the Earth, the Moon, and "Ye kings of suns and stars, Daemons and Gods, / aetherial Dominations, who possess/ Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes/ Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness.