Lord Byron extensively uses euphemisms in his poems “We’ll Go No More A-roving” and “Thou Art Dead As Young And Fair” to soften the literal meaning behind his poems. In “We’ll Go No More A-roving” the euphemisms allows Bryon to repeat the dilemma the speaker is in without being monotonous and avoids directly stating the speaker has fallen out of love. The poem conveys this theme of loss of love as “…the heart must pause to breathe,/ And love itself must pause to rest”, the use of repetition drives home the message of the poem . When the theme is worded like this, it does not have the same blunt connotation as it originally would have if the speaker simply said they no longer were in love, giving the words more emotion. Using euphemisms allows the audience to focus more on the dull ache the speaker is experiencing.
The purpose of euphemisms in “And Thou Art Dead As Young And Fair” is to preserve
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