of personification. That is, he describes [Toussaint] Louverture's friends as feelings or ideals of man that can not die. "Thy friends are exultations, agonies, and love, and man's unconquerable mind." Thus, even though he would die in prison, his work was not in vain. He had made the ideals of The French Revolution a reality!While the horror of the earthquake in Haiti can not be denied, can not be nullified, one might find some solace in the words of William Wordsworth. Toussaint suffered mercilessly in that cold dungeon-like prison, the Fort de Jour. Napoleon re-imposed tyranny (temporarily) on Europe and the American colonies. But on January 1, 1804, a few years after the poem was written, Jean Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti a free republic.
from The Student Operated Press: "To Toussaint Louverture"--William Wordsworth's poem on Haitian Revolution's mystic leader
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