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MAM HINA
Byron as a Romantic
Poet
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), or commonly
known as Lord Byron, was the successor of the
5th Baron Byron (making him the 6th Baron
Byron). He was a British poet and politician known
more popularly for his works She Walks In Beauty
and Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. And
was one of the leading figures of the Romantic
Movement.

At the age of thirty-six, Byron died of a violent fever


after fighting in the Greek War Of Independence
against the Ottoman Empire
Lord Byron
Byron was known to have generated a love for books at quite an
early age . He tried his hand at poetry for the first time at the
mere age of twelve in the year 1800. His first publication was in
the year 1805 at the age of seventeen, Fugitive Pieces.

His Romanticism was very different and deviated from the essence
of real Romantic essence. He is famous for his famous epic “The
Childe Harold’s pilgrimage”. He was a satire and wrote many satires
till the end. Other famous works include “Don Juan” and “Manfred”.
Byron is the most distinguished Romantic poet among the other
Romantic Poets.
“ If I am a poet… The air of
Greece has made me one.”
– Lord Byron
Byron as a romantic poet.

Byron as a Romantic poet was engaged with the materialism of


life as well as the interior exploration of poet’s own feelings or
subjectivity. He was materialistic in a way that he is
geographical,social and political centered poet who transcends
these materialism into his own poetic experiences.

In addition to this, Byron’s writing is unconventional to the


Wordsworthian and Coleridge aspects of spontaneity ,
philosophical musings of mind expressed directly through organic
materialism or imagination. He combines the rational elements or
wits along with the spirit of Romanticism to form a new work of
Romantic art. He seems to go back to the Eighteenth century Neo-
Classical writings where the poets emphasize on wits.
Byron as a romantic poet

However, Byron as a Romantic poet shrouds the classical essence in his


writings. Byron goes back to the essence of past where the word
“Pilgrimage” itself reflects the journey or the growth.

Moreover, Byron was critical of his own contemporary age. He


satirizes the impact of Napoleonic war which is bring forth through
irony. He pays homage to Napoleon who fought for liberty and
freedom but the the Battle of Waterloo seems to have a great
impact on the society.
He brings forth irony where he questions
whether all the nations together came and
combat for one individual “submit”. It is in
reference to Napoleon where he criticizes the
political tyranny which the France has ended
but he also gives a rhetorical question again
whether Napoleon’s critical turn to end
sovereignty is the “true sovereignty” as it still
has a great impact on the society. It clearly
shows Byron own attitude towards his disgust
about the war.
Byron wrote many satires. “Don Juan” is a satire and he
makes a mockery of the First generation Romantic
poets. In the poem , he mocks William Wordsworth and
called him as an “intellectual eunuch” and Robert
Southey as an “Tory Turning”. He was a satire not only of
the materialistic world but also of his contemporary.

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LORD BYRON
Hence, Byron was controversial in his writings and in his life
and his writings clearly made him unconventional to the
Romantic essence of writing but also towards his
contemporaries. It is also satire in a way that Don Juan was
strictly educated at his home to be “moral” but he mocks at
the aristocratic rules of education where the strict restriction
towards sexuality in him since childhood made him more
curious and turns out to be viscous at his adult age and
hence the education was fruitless.
Byron personality

Lastly, Byron invented a Byronic hero. It has been debated that it


could be the personality of Byron’s himself. Byronic heroes are
passionate, mysterious, easily seduced by a woman ,
sadistic ,charming and others. “Don Juan” is a Byronic hero as
he was “Tall handsome” and charming in his personality.
Don Juan

“Don Juan” reflects the Byronic heroic essence of someone who


combines both evil and good in their personalities which is reflected in
the poem that when Juan and Julia had been intimated together
occasionally but when his illicit love affairs was found Juan fled into the
darkness or so called poetic desolation and hence he flees into the
European countries and it seems that the country of Europe is the place
of emotional attachment or a peace or sensuousness where Byron
seems to emphasize upon.
Quotes

Take a look to some Quote excerpts from lord


byron work as a romantic poet
“One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired 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.”
-excerpt from She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron.
“But if in worlds more blest than this

Thy virtues seek a fitter sphere,

Impart some portion of thy bliss,

To wean me from mine anguish here.”

-excerpt from To Thyrza by Lord Byron.


“For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.”
-excerpt from So We’ll Go No More A Roving by
Lord Byron
“And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean’s pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull’d winds seem dreaming. “
-excerpt from Stanzas For Music by Lord Byron.
“Thus much and more; and yet thou lov’st me not,
And never wilt! Love dwells not in our will.
Nor can I blame thee, though it be my lot
To strongly, wrongly, vainly love thee still.”
-excerpt from Love And Death by Lord Byron

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