Essays on Lord Byron

There is a common misconception fostered by many Britons that with the growing diversity and the growing influence of globalization in the country Great Britain has become a classless society. This myth is further reinforced by the proclamations made by different political dignitaries like former British Prime Minister John Major who expressed the desire to create a 'classless society of opportunity' after he came into power back in 1990s (Lewis, 2013). Not only John Major, another Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair also proclaimed in his speech in 1999 that "the class war is over" (Marsden, 1999). But in ...

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‘Subject’ Literary Analysis of the Play Arcadia Hayden White, in his essay titled "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact" argues that, every historian is a storyteller, and the ability to construe historical events into coherent narrative form is significant to the art of historiography. He conveys that literary imagination is crucial to a historian and stresses on the need to recognize that there is a fictive element to any historical narrative. This essay, by analyzing the play ‘Arcadia’ written by Tom Stoppard, aims to find out, how literary genre and literary elements used by the author alter or impact our ...

Lord Byron also known as Lord George Gordon Byron is arguably one of the greatest poets ever. He was born in 1788 and lived for thirty-six years before his death in 1824 (Byron, George Gordon Byron 57). Despite the fact that he lived for a short time, he left a legacy like no other. He wrote many poems and other literary genres before his demise. He was arguably the greatest poet from the United Kingdom by then. His legacy in the world of poetry has found no match to date. One of his most famous poems is ‘the ocean’ the use ...

Beauty refers to the characteristic of a person, animal, object, idea, or place, which provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, satisfaction, or meaning. As the old saying goes, beauty lies on the eyes of the beholder. It is studied as part of psychology, aesthetics, culture and social psychology. However, there are two sides of beauty; the internal and external beauty. External beauty is the most preferred by many. Nevertheless, internal beauty also has admirers. In this paper, I will provide an insightful explication of the poem “She walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron. The poem was written in 1814 and ...

Between 1650 and 1789, Neoclassicism dominated Western literature, and thereafter it was dominated by Romanticism until 1850. Typically, neoclassical pieces of literature were written in English and French, while Romanticism was international. The term neoclassicism, which is the cluster of roughly allied trends, applies to aggressive secular rationalism that dominated France in the 18th century, as well as to the whole period from Discourse on Method (1637) to 1789, when the French Revolution broke out. According to many scholars, the neoclassical period of literature transitioned into the romantic period of literature in 1798 when the “Lyrical Ballads” was ...

Beauty of a woman has been one of the most important sources of inspiration for poetry. But all the poems based on the inner or outer beauty of a woman need not to be identical in its message, theme or structure. This essay aims at illumining two great poems of all time, namely To Helen by Edgar Allen Poe (‘The Literature Network’) and She walks in beauty by Lord Byron (A Portable Anthology, p 486). Though both the poems have a common theme related to beauty of woman and her power but yet there is more than one difference which makes the two ...

When the volcano inside Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, the ash in the sky left the next summer very dreary and cold. When the eighteen-year-old Mary Godwin traveled with her lover, Percy Shelley, to Switzerland to visit Lord Byron, the weather was so miserable that the group could never take part in the outdoor activities they had planned; instead, they had to amuse themselves indoors. After spending one evening talking about the possibility of returning dead bodies to life and reading German ghost stories, Lord Byron suggested a bet for the group – that each of them would write a supernatural story. ...

‘She walks in beauty’ is a luminary piece of literary work by George Gordon Lord Byron. This short poem was first published in the ‘Hebrew Melodies’ in the year 1815. Sonnet 18 is one of the most famous works of the Shakespeare and was published along with other sonnets in the year 1609 in a huge series. This paper intends to discuss poems, ‘she walks in beauty’ as well as ‘sonnet 18’ and further compares both of them in view of several related aspects. When we look at both the poems, beauty appears as a common theme in both literary works. ...

Outline: Comparison of Romantic Poetry:

I. Introduction 1. Romantic concerns in poetry 2. Choice of poems and poets 3. Thesis statement: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Music” and Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty” are very different in form and atmosphere, but they have much in common in the areas where they fall into the category of Romantic poetry, including poetic devices and concerns or issues of Romantic poets.

II. Shelley’s “Music” 1. Basic structure of the poem 2. Other poetic devices 3. Subject of the poem 4. Concerns ...