Topic > Why is Lord Byron a Byronic hero? - 875

George Gordon, better known as Lord Byron, was born in London, United Kingdom in 1788. He was a British poet and belonged to an aristocratic family of his country, he lost his father at the age of three. In 1798, on the death of his uncle William, 5th Baron Byron, he inherited the title and estates. Byron studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, a phase in which he curiously distinguished himself as an athlete, despite having been physically damaged since birth. Lord Byron lived a difficult youth due to his lameness and his mother's irritable temper. At eighteen he published his first book of poems, Leisure Hours, and an adverse review appeared in the Edinburgh Review, prompting a violent satire entitled English Bards and Scotch critics, with which he achieved some notoriety. In 1809, having declared himself of age, Lord Byron embarked on a series of journeys that toured Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey. Upon his return he published, as a poetic memoir of his journey, the first two songs of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which quickly earned him fame. The hero of the poem, Childe Harold, seems to be based on autobiographical elements, although certainly recreated and enhanced to set what would have been the typical Byronic hero he sought to emulate in his life characterized by rebellion against established morals and conventions and marked by a vague nostalgia and exaltation of feelings, above all the suffering for an indefinite original sin. In 1815 he married Anna Isabella Mibanke, with whom he had a daughter, Augusta Dada, but they separated after a year. The libertine and amoral character expressed by Lord Byron to society eventually turned against him, especially after the rumors of his incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta, so he ended up leaving... middle of paper... .is it a disappointment or a disillusionment. The woman is part of that feeling of love. He may appear as a sweet and innocent being, a victim of love or society. Although at times he appears as a perverse and cruel being who leads the poet to destruction. The artist echoed the social and political conflicts of this time, the inequalities and frustrations of nationalist and regionalist consciousness, socio-humanitarian theories are also present. Romantic literature breaks the boundaries of reality, leaves room for the mysterious and the supernatural, for dark characters and extreme situations. Romantic artists try to awaken strong emotions and feelings in the reader or viewer, as they use resources such as questions and exclamations, exaggerations, metaphors, emphatic language violent antitheses in which adjectives and typical expressions such as dream, fantasy, ruin and darkness.