... II's brother -James II- because of Catholic influence-as the king's party supported the Catholic position-. Many people were against him supporting earl of Shaftesbury whose followers were termed Whigs. "Absalom an Achitopel- is an allegorical poem because it's not straightforward , it's full of parallels between the biblical story of ... Absalom against his father king David. Dryden uses biblical figures to refer to Charles II-David-, Absalom-Monmouth- and Shaftesbury-Achitopel- and describes a view associated with symmetry as in Milton's "Paradise Lost-. This poem is a great achieveme...

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