Lord Byron

In Excerpt from Don Juan, assist the following Select 3 stanzas from Canto I that you can explain. Do not give plot summary, so carefully choose a stanza that lends itself to analysis or some research. Write somewhat three to iv sentences. In Subject government note, identify your stanza, e.g., 44 (Canto I, Stanza 44).Stanza 5Brave men were living before AgamemnonAnd since, stupendous various and Sage,A good deal corresponding him too, though quite the same none 35But then they shone not on the Poets page,And so have been forgotten I reprove none,But cant find any in present ageFit for my numbers (that is, for my New One)So, as I said, Ill take my friend Don Juan. 40In analyzing Stanza 5, its interesting to read as we wonder who else Byron may have considered in this poesy he sit down down to publish. Was he considering other brave men, poets, heroes before finalizing it with Don Juan? Who were the others a great deal like him (Canto 1, Stanza 5, Line 35). This stanza ca n be more than interesting to readers who examine the history of what was viewed as the scandalous moot nature of his writing of Don Juan and what concessions did Byron have to end up making before it was published. Stanza 5 sums up what he was saying about heroes in the previous stanzas.Stanza 6Most epic poets plunge in medias res(Horace makes this the heroic turnpike road),And then your hero tells, wheneer you please,What went beforeby the way of episode, art object seated after dinner at his ease, 45Beside his mistress in some soft abode,Palace, or garden, paradise, or cavern,Which serves the happy couple for a tavern.The analysis of Stanza 6 lets the reader in that Byron is intention each(prenominal)y not following Horaces recommendation of when to start an epic. Byron is (intentionally?) not following the rules of what at the time was being seen by other writers as the better way of starting an epic, which was in the middle. This stanza proves to us the writer is choosing not to write using the examples of Homer or Virgil but writing this epic his own way (Canto 1, Stanza 6, Lines 41-44).Stanza 7That is the commonplace method, but not mineMy way is to begin with the beginning 50The regularity of my designForbids all locomote as the worst of sinning,And therefore I shall open with a line(Although it cost me one-half an hour in spinning)Narrating somewhat of Don Juans father, 55And also of his mother, if youd rather.Although the reader isnt aware of it until later, Byron reveals to us that he knew in advance he would digress in the poem (Canto 1, Stanza 7, Line 54). The reader promptly learns that was the writer Byrons intention from the start. The reader can wonder if Byron is even intended of how he changes some of the traditional epic writing in writing this work.In Excerpt from Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, answer the following1. Does the Byronic hero know any form of Keatsian spot?Yes, in that Keatsian love is often associated with beauty-as-truth. In Canto 2, Stanza 9 we read as Byron writes of having loved and it was still in his thoughts although he is now alone with those thoughts. We also read of this beauty-as-truth love in Canto III Stanza I when he relates of the love for his daughter.2. outset with stanza 17, the narrator talks about Waterloo. Why?Waterloo is current to at this time to Byron. Just a a couple of(prenominal) months before this, the fate of Europe had been decided because of that Battle. So it is important that the reader is aware that it is sacred cause to him. The battle was fought on June 18th, 1815 which makes this a very relevant event during his lifetime of 1788-1824.3. In what ways is this poem about mid-life crises?Childe in this epic refers to a knight and we read as this knight is gloomily wandering as a vicious world-worn man. In his thoughts throughout the pilgramage it relates closely to a man who is going through similar thoughts a man in mid-life crises might go through as though he h as already fully lived.4. How does the Byronic hero relate to nature?Byron relates better to nature than he does to humans. In Canto 4, Stanza 178, Byron states this on that point is a pleasure in the pathless woods, in that location is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can neer express, yet cannot all concealHowever, in reading this piece, I feel its obvious throughout to the reader that the writer can connect more easily with nature than humans. Because most of Byrons work is autographical in nature, this is easy to understand if the reader about Byronpersonal life.ReferencesCharacteristics of the Byronic Hero. University of Michigan. Online. Internet.17 May 2003.(2002, February 11). Childe Harolds Pilgrimage. Retrieved May 17, 2007, from TheProject Gutenberg Web site http//www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/chp110h.htm(2007). George Gordon, Lord Byron. Retrieved May 17, 2007, from Bobs byway Website http//www.poeticbyway.com/xbyron.html