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BIOGRAPHY
The Byronic Hero Himself!
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“Mad- bad- and dangerous to know”
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This was said by one of Lord Byron’s affair, Lady Caroline Lamb
(“George Gordon” 1). Lamb describes Byron as being a ‘dangerous’ man based on
his love affairs with many different women, and also by his charming capabilities.
Lord Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, was born January 22, 1788 in London,
England. He was born with clubfoot, a deformity of the foot, and was very sensitive
of his deficiency. Growing up, Byron had a rough childhood; his father had left him
and his mother for Aberdeen, Scotland, where they never saw him again. Byron’s
mother hired a quack doctor to help Byron’s foot, who only made matters worse
when he tortured Byron with his cruel medical techniques. Byron was later on
acquired proper medical attention for his foot and was then properly schooled (“The
Life of Lord Byron” 1).
Lord Byron gained influence from the famous poet, Alexander Pope,
who also suffered from physical deformities and complications like Byron himself
(“Lord Byron” 1). The first woman Byron fell in love with was Mary Duff, who was a
distant cousin of his, and she has inspired Byron to write love poetry (“The Life of
Lord Byron” 1). Throughout Byron’s life, he has had many affairs with different
women, including Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Oxford, Lady Francis Webster, and
even some rumors say Byron had a love affair with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh.
Most of Byron’s famous works were of his many feelings of love, and of also guilt
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he felt for his many affairs and his illegitimate children (“The Life of Lord
Byron” 2). When Byron was on tour around Europe, he came across the
lands of Greece and was instantly in love with it. Greece made such an
impression on himself that he joined Greece in their fight for
independence against the Turks and later gave his life for Greece. Due to
cold rainy weather during the fight, Byron had caught a serous cold, and it
turned into a nasty fever. Byron suffered from many
bloodletting treatments which only made the fever dramatically worse.
Byron had fallen into a deep coma, and the next day he died on April 19,
1824 in Missolonghi, Greece (“The Life of Lord Byron” 4).
Lord Byron’s works are said to be Romanticism, but it is
blended with both Neoclassicism and Romanticism. He had a different
way of describing things with a symbolic meaning. His many major themes
in his poetry this included love, adventure and the so-called ‘Byronic hero’
(“The Poetry of Lord Byron and the Nature of Genre” 1). The Byronic
hero was taken after Lord Byron’s personality, which was a young man who
has strong regret from his past actions (“Lord Byron” 1). Byron has
influenced many artists and writers of the time, including Franz Liszt,
Hector Berlioz and Giuseppe Verdi. Even in our modern time, Byron
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comes about in different movies, books, songs, plays and even art. Of the
books, shows, and plays, Byron is found being the ‘Byronic hero’ in most
all of them (“Lord Byron” 1). Byron’s many struggles and affairs had led
himself into dread and exile throughout his life. He was a man of action, a
man willing to give his life for what he believed in. With the struggles life
had faced him; it had not crushed his poetic spirit
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▪”The First Kiss of Love” (1806)
▪”Hours of Idleness” (1807)
▪”Thoughts Suggested by a College
Examination” (1806)
▪”English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”
(1809)
▪”To a Beautiful Quaker” (1807)
▪”The Cornelian” (1807)
▪”Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I
& II” (1812)
▪”Lines Addressed to a Young Lady” (1807)
▪”The Giaour” (1813)
▪”Lachin y Garr” (1807)
▪”The Bride of Abydos” (1813)
▪”Epitaph to a Dog” (1808)
▪”The Corsair” (1814)
▪”Maid of Athens, ere we part” (1810)
▪”Lara, A Tale” (1814)
▪”She Walks in Beauty” (1814)
▪”Hebrew Melodies” (1815)
▪”My Soul is Dark” (1815)
▪”The Siege of Corinth” (1816)
▪”When We Two Parted” (1817)
▪”Parisina” (1816)
▪”Love's Last Adieu So, we'll go no more a
roving” (1830)
▪”The Prisoner of Chillon” (1816)
▪”The Dream” (1816)
▪”Prometheus” (1816)
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▪”Darkness” (1816)
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“Darkness” by: Lord Byron
“My Soul is Dark” by: Lord Byron
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“She Walks in Beauty” by: Lord Byron
“When We Two Parted” by: Lord Byron
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“THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB”
by: Lord Byron
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were
gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars
on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their
banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn
hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the
face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and
chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled
not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the
turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and
the rust on his mail: And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The
lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in
the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the
sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
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In “The Destruction of Sennacherib”, Lord Byron refers to the story of the
great Assyrian Empire in the Old Testament of the Bible; Byron discusses how God’s
forces wiped out the Assyrian Empire, with the Angel of Death. This is a story from the
book of “2 Kings” in the Bible, chapter 19:32-37. “2 Kings” states, 32 “Therefore this is
what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: “‘He will not enter this city or shoot
an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it. 33
By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the LORD. 34 I
will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’” 35
That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty -five
thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning —there were all
the dead bodies! 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He
returned to Nineveh and stayed there. 37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple
of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they
escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king” (New
International Version). The scripture states that the Assyrian’s were wiped out because of
the wrath of God. In Byron’s poem, it states, “For the Angel of Death spread his wings
on the blast, /And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; /And the eyes of the
sleepers waxed deadly and chill, /And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew
still!” In this passage it states how the Angel of Death took the lives away from the
Assyrians with just a breath, and also how calm it was. Byron rhymes the last word for
every two lines, and also shows some rhythm by using about 11-12 syllables in each line of
the poem. Byron uses these devices throughout the poem to make the story more visual,
shortened up, and also to show the wrath God has on man. Even the fate of the strong
Assyrian Empire, consisting of over one hundred thousand men, was defeated in one
night by God, and Byron can relate this by the many wrongdoings he has had against
God’s word and now can feel some of Gods wrath upon himself.
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The poem “Darkness” by Lord Byron tells about one of
Byron’s dreams, which wasn’t all just a dream for him. He describes the
world as if it had no sun; all was darkness, and chaos forming because of
this. Byron talks about many animals dying, wars coming about, burning of
homes, and he sums up the end of all life on earth. He said, “Seasonless,
herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless--/A lump of death—a chaos of hard
clay. /The rivers, lakes, and oceans all stood still.” This line stuck out at me,
and all of the life from the world was gone, even the nonliving things were
pronounced ‘dead’.
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went--and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires--and the thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings--the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
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Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd, (cont)
And men were gather'd round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face;
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd;
Forests were set on fire--but hour by hour
They fell and faded--and the crackling trunks
Extinguish'd with a crash--and all was black.
The brows of men by the despairing light
Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest
Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd;
And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
The pall of a past world; and then again
With curses cast them down upon the dust,
And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd
And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,
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And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes
Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl'd
And twin'd themselves among the multitude,
Hissing, but stingless--they were slain for food.
And War, which for a moment was no more,
Did glut himself again: a meal was bought
With blood, and each sate sullenly apart
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
All earth was but one thought--and that was death
Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails--men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devour'd,
Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one,
And he was faithful to a corse, and kept
The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay,
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
Lur'd their lank jaws; himself sought out no food,
But with a piteous and perpetual moan,
And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
Which answer'd not with a caress--he died.
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The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two
Of an enormous city did survive,
And they were enemies: they met beside
The dying embers of an altar-place
Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things
For an unholy usage; they rak'd up,
And shivering scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands
The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath
Blew for a little life, and made a flame
Which was a mockery; then they lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
Each other's aspects--saw, and shriek'd, and died-Even of their mutual hideousness they died,
Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
Famine had written Fiend. The world was void,
The populous and the powerful was a lump,
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless-A lump of death--a chaos of hard clay.
The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still,
And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths;
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Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
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And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd
They slept on the abyss without a surge--
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The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them--She was the Universe.
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Lord Byron’s “My Soul is Dark” explains a darkness that has overcome his heart.
Byron refers to a harp being strung, and then playing the harp to mourn about
this darkness. “If in these eyes there lurk a tear, / ‘Twill follow, and cease to burn
my brain.” This line stuck out, and states if he cries about this, its only going to
make him fell worse about it, and will have a ‘burning’ in his head. The second
paragraph he says he must weep, because otherwise his heart will explode from so
much sorrow.
“My Soul is Dark” by: Lord Byron
My soul is dark - Oh! quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear;
And let thy gentle fingers fling
Its melting murmurs o'er mine ear.
If in this heart a hope be dear,
That sound shall charm it forth again:
If in these eyes there lurk a tear,
'Twill flow, and cease to burn my brain.
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But bid the strain be wild and deep,
Nor let thy notes of joy be first:
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I tell thee, minstrel, I must weep,
Or else this heavy heart will burst;
For it hath been by sorrow nursed,
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And ached in sleepless silence, long;
And now 'tis doomed to know the worst,
And break at once - or yield to song.
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“She Walks in Beauty” by: Lord Byron
“Farming” by: Brandon Molland
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
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Fields awaken by morning light,
Eroding empty cans of beer
As laughter ended in the night;
Hounds receive their food and they sneer
As cautious eyes form in delight
With thoughts of drought passing in fear.
Grain bins swallowing air with dust
As beads of sweat form on his brow.
Children playing and becoming unjust.
Barn doors squeak, as kittens meow,
Abandoned cars await the rust
Like countless times of milking cows.
Many times the roosters have fought
While the sun is about to set.
With all of the fireflies caught,
As the farmhouse fears its debt.
Among the loving family he brought
The farmer is feeling some regret.
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“When We Two Parted” by: Lord Byron
“Vengeance” by: Brandon Molland
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When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
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Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.
The dew of the morning
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Sunk chill on my brow--
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
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Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.
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They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me-Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well:
Lond, long shall I rue thee,
Too deeply to tell.
I secret we met-I silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.
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When we two parted
I sought vengeance,
Taking what belonged to me
Feeling no delight.
Many years passing,
The feeling lurks.
I have become torn rags
Upon your cursed breath.
With lust brings no joy
With vengeance brings no pride
We will never meet again
For it brings only sorrow
May curses be brought unto thyself !
With silence and tears.
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Losses of limbs, blood and gore
Immortal men rode ashore.
Although in the heart of war,
Men fighting, as if a chore.
Immersed in a deep vapor,
A boy calls out with pen and paper.
Seeking out men with forewarning
Explaining their families mourning’s.
“’Tis but a glorious morning!
But please except this warning.
Mothers accustomed with mourning
Never find life to be adorning!”
All along the barren city,
The men listened to his ditty.
A boy’s courage seemed so witty
And made powerful men feel pity.
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Your idiotic hands take gold,
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And make a sacrificial mold
Unto your selfish being?
Ignore thy conscience disagreeing.
I shall set my sons ablaze
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Within this unholy praise!
Glorify such material gods,
Ye struck by satanic rods.
Tablets in hand, cascade the mountain,
Seek those high upon the fountain,
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And they will have a glorious feast
Within them holds a sinful beast.
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Stricken the stone upon the ground,
The Prophet Moses angered by the sound
Of Aaron’s loss of control
Upon the worship of the Levites’ souls.
“All who believe upon thy Lord
Gather, come and join the hoard!
Of those who want to be restored
Of thy sin, must fight a war.
“Slaughter thy brother and thy son!”
And thus the war had begun.
With 3,000 men dead that day
Moses softly began to pray.
The son of man has stricken sin
Upon thy vicious diseased skin
Because of their faith remained vague
Hundreds of people suffered the plague.
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Kirjasto
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/byron.htm
Neurotic Poets
http://www.neuroticpoets.com/byron/
Englishhistory
http://englishhistory.net/byron/life.html
Poetryfoundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lord-byron
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http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/byron_george_gordon.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
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