Analyzing Byron s Poetry Very Interesting And Inspiring

I decided to analyze Byron because I find his poetry very interesting and inspiring. Every single line reflects Byron’s life at a certain point. In his poems, we can mostly see the ‘Byronic hero’, that sinful outcast of society. That very hero is a reflection of himself, but there are several poems where we see quite a different motif – love. One of his most beautiful love poems is definitely â€Å"When we two parted†. While reading about Byron’s life, about his affairs with hundreds of women, who, perhaps, helped him feel better because of his physical disability and make him feel like Casanova, I never thought that he could be able to love. For me, he was always a poet who wrote about the corrupted society where his hero fights for freedom,†¦show more content†¦The lyric persona feels that their destiny has been foretold, they couldn’t change it, even if they wanted to. In the second stanza, we have the personal pronoun â€Å"I† for the first time. Here we have an amazing metaphor that reflects the feelings of the lyric persona. We have the words â€Å"dew† and â€Å"sunk† which show us how much our lyric persona suffers, and the pronoun â€Å"I† just emphasizes his pain. What I’ve also noticed is the word â€Å"now† in the 4th line. Our lyric persona hasn’t stopped grieving from the moment they parted. The next 4 lines final ly point out to the fact that their love is forbidden. The woman has broken her vows, having an affair with our lyric persona, and whenever he hears her name, he feels ashamed, too. Later on, we get to the most mysterious stanza of the poem. The mystery was something that Romantic poets cherished, and Byron was a real master in using it, so this stanza is the most interesting one. We still do not know who the woman was and what really happened. Maybe, the poet wants us to get to the conclusion on our own. Or, perhaps, he thinks that it is not crucial for the poem because the reasons for ending a relationship are as mysterious as the nature of the relationship itself. In this stanza, again, we have that deathly atmosphere. Whenever someone mentions her name, the lyric persona thinks of death and a shudder comes over him, but he cannot find the reason for that. Even though their love was secret, it was