First White Terror First White Terror The White Terror was a period during the French Revolution in 1795, when a wave of violent attacks swept across much of France. The victims of this violence were people identified as being associated with the Reign of Terror – followers of Robespierre and Marat, and members of local Jacobin clubs. The violence was perpetrated primarily by those whose relatives or associates had been victims of the Great Terror, or whose lives and livelihoods had been threatened by the government and its supporters before the Thermidorean Reaction. Principally these were, in Paris, the Muscadins, and in the
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad in "Harmonium", the other elements being "The Snow Man" and "Tea at the Palaz of Hoon." To master the triad is to reach "the center of Stevens' poetic and human anxieties and of his resources for meeting those anxieties". "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad" represents a moment in "Harmonium"s progress in which the poet proclaims diffidence about his future creativity. The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium." First published in 1921, it is in the public domain in the United States. One point