Lord Byron Poet Analysis

Lord Byron’s Love Lord Byron was born to love. In his youth, Byron suffered bouts of unrequited love, mostly for his distant cousin, Mary Chaworth, which had “sunk so deep into his mind as to give colour to all his future life” (Moore). Byron wrote many poems of his situation involving his love for Mary, and his constant wish for it to be returned (Pregnolato). In a great deal of Lord Byron’s poetry, there is a noticeable correlation in theme, symbolism, and personification, which all point to his ever-present, single-sided love. Unrequited love is a common theme in a multiple of Byron’s poems. Byron knew that his love, Mary, did not return his passionate feelings, but in fact had promised herself to another (Pregnolato).Though she loved another, Byron could not remove Mary from his thoughts and often fantasized about their relationship, as he does in his many poems (Pregnolato). In the poem fittingly called, “The Dream”, Byron tells of a dream he had about his beloved, in which he cynically points out the fact that she does not love him. He writes, “What could her grief be?—she had all she loved, And he who had so loved her was not there” ("The Dream - Poem"). Byron wonders why his beloved, Mary, is upset for she apparently had all she loved, which Byron continues to convey that he is not among the ones of which she loves. Byron dwells on his unreturned love, calling himself an “ill-repressed affliction” ("The Dream - Poem"). This struggle is also seen in his other poems, such as the “Translation of a Romaic Love Song”, in which he describes the agonies of Love, and how he is captured by his lone passion to ensue in a “fatal fire.” He writes, “My curdling blood, my madd’ning brain, In silent anguish I sustain And still thy heart, without partaking One pang, exults – while mine is breaking” ("Translation Of A Romaic"). “Without partaking” is the key phrase in this stanza, for it identifies that his beloved did not share his consuming passion, and therefore

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