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... Byron rebels against the pervasive wrongness of the order of things , or when he seeks to discover the laws of Fate and accept them . He had , as du Bos aptly says , ' un besoin de la fatalité11 . Byron's meditation on historical vanity ...
... Byron rebels against the pervasive wrongness of the order of things , or when he seeks to discover the laws of Fate and accept them . He had , as du Bos aptly says , ' un besoin de la fatalité11 . Byron's meditation on historical vanity ...
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... Byron does not dwell on the sombre mood of this stanza , but sets about correcting his despondency in the beauty and solitude of the lake . Biographers and critics have often pointed out that Byron during those weeks opened his mind to ...
... Byron does not dwell on the sombre mood of this stanza , but sets about correcting his despondency in the beauty and solitude of the lake . Biographers and critics have often pointed out that Byron during those weeks opened his mind to ...
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... Byron's real and public selves , and finds these predominant in Don Juan and Childe Harold respectively.19 Paul West differentiates even further and claims for Byron ' three main selves ' : ' First ... the exoticist of the romances ...
... Byron's real and public selves , and finds these predominant in Don Juan and Childe Harold respectively.19 Paul West differentiates even further and claims for Byron ' three main selves ' : ' First ... the exoticist of the romances ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Traditional Metaphor | 15 |
The Metaphor | 75 |
Copyright | |
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actual Aeneid allegory ancient appears Arnold aspect beauty becomes beginning Book Byron Canto character Childe claim close concerned contrast course critics death deep early elements emerges emotional episode exile existence experience exploration eyes fact fate feeling felt figure final force freedom function hand heart hero Homeric human idea imagination important impulses interesting Italy journey kind land landscape later light lines living Mariner Mariner's meaning metaphor mind moral move myth nature object observe Odysseus once passage pattern peace poem poet poet's poetic poetry present quest relation religious represents ritual scene Scholar seems seen sense significant society soul spiritual stands stanzas story structure suggests symbolic takes things thou thought traditional tree true truth turn Ulysses vision voyage wanderer Wordsworth