Essay Romantic Era

Although he was a Romantic poet, Byron saw much of his best work as descriptions of reality as it exists, not how it is imagined. Thus, the subjects of numerous of his poems come from history and personal experience. The “Darkness” was written to reflect the mass madness that arose out of susceptible visionary understandings related to the natural disaster of a volcano’s eruption. He also uses the themes of life and death to show its importance during the Romantic Era. The theme of nature is also brought up throughout the poem which is another theme of the Romantic Era.
The poem Darkness gives a view of the world in a way that it is sort of ending. The imagery throughout the poem gives life to the emotional responses of the speaker at the time. Byron takes advantage of the poem and the end of humanity and creates a vast description of these events. The poem starts out with the speaker stating “I had a dream, which was not at all a dream/the bright sun was quenched…” (1-2). “Darkness” is a poem with different meanings it can be read as a mixture of an symbolic view of the end of times and an opinionated view about the ending of humankind. Here, Byron is mixing reality with the unreal visions of an illusion, like an introduction of what we are going to read, a dream with a real meaning about the corruption and degradation of humanity and its possible end. The main ideas in this poem are the end of the world, the final demolition of everything emphasising the disappearance of light as it is said at the beginning of the poem: “The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars, Did wander darkling in the eternal space,”(2:3) The idea of the men becoming beasts is lightly remarked by this idea of total destruction, everything is fading and disappearing as the humankind is being tainted and ruined until becoming unreasonable beings. The meaning of life in Byron's work is based on how he views his own life, and depicts it as light. The theme of life is shown when he