Questions tagged [don-juan]
Don Juan is a long poem by Lord Byron, in seventeen cantos with the last one unfinished. Use this tag with the [lord-byron] tag.
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Who is “very fond of bearing false witness” in Byron’s “Don Juan”?
Here’s a stanza from canto I of Byron’s Don Juan, published in 1819. The narrator has been surveying the talents (or lack thereof) of his fellow-poets, and comments:
Thou shalt not covet Mr. Sotheby’...
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In Lord Byron's "Don Juan," what was the lead character "half-smother'd" by?
This would be the character's first adventure. Julia, a married woman, became his mistress. Her husband, Don Alfonso, was told that she was cheating on him and ran into the bedroom, accompanied by ...
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Are Don Juan and Haidée both Greek, as this line in the poem seems to suggest?
Canto II of Don Juan contains the following, which I found absolutely hilarious:
They look upon each other, and their eyes
Gleam in the moonlight; and her white arm clasps
Round Juan’s head, and his ...
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Why was John Keats called a poet “who was kill’d off by one critique”?
In Canto XI of Lord Byron’s magnificent work Don Juan, romantic poet Keats is mentioned as a poet
who was kill’d off by one critique.
Why he was referred to like that? And which critique was it?
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What does this quote in Don Juan by Lord Byron mean? "Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady"
Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady
I saw this quote in C. S. Lewis's The Inner Ring and I'm having trouble figuring out what it means. What does this quote in ...
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What is the rhythm of the line 'I want a hero, an uncommon want'?
What is the rhythm of the following line from the start of Byron's Don Juan?
I want a hero: an uncommon want,
Is it iambic or trochaic? It's a tetrameter and not a pentameter that I am aware of. ...
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Meaning of "Was given to her favorite, and now bore his" in Byron's Don Juan
From Byron's Don Juan (Canto The Tenth, XLIX):
While this high post of honour's in abeyance,
For one or two days, reader, we request
You'll mount with our young hero the conveyance
Which wafted him ...
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Meaning of "and those things which for an instant clip enjoyment's wings" in Byron's Don Juan
Canto 10, stanza 5, from Byron's Don Juan:
We left our hero, Juan, in the bloom
Of favouritism, but not yet in the blush;
And far be it from my Muses to presume
(For I have more ...
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Meaning of "all game and bottom" in Byron's "Don Juan"
From Byron's Don Juan:
That drinks and still is dry. At last they perish'd --
His second son was levell'd by a shot;
His third was sabred; and the fourth, most cherish'd
Of all the ...
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Meaning of "With Ismail's storm to soften it the more" in Byron's "Don Juan"
Canto 8, stanza 68, from Byron's Don Juan:
So much for Nature: -- by way of variety,
Now back to thy great joys, Civilisation!
And the sweet consequence of large society,
War, pestilence, ...
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Where is the object in this clause in Byron's Don Juan?
From Byron's Don Juan:
But those who scaled, found out that their advance
Was favour'd by an accident or blunder:
The Greek or Turkish Cohorn's ignorance
Had palisado'd in a way you'd ...
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Meaning of "which some months the same still is" in Byron's 'Don Juan'
From Byron's Don Juan:
By Jove! he was a noble fellow, Johnson,
And though his name, than Ajax or Achilles,
Sounds less harmonious, underneath the sun soon
We shall not see his ...
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Meaning of "Hounds, when the huntsman tumbles, are at fault" in Byron's Don Juan
From Byron's Don Juan:
The troops, already disembark'd, push'd on
To take a battery on the right; the others,
Who landed lower down, their landing done,
Had set to work as briskly as ...
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Meaning of "pig who sees the wind" in Byron's Don Juan
From Byron's Don Juan:
Medals, rank, ribands, lace, embroidery, scarlet,
Are things immortal to immortal man,
As purple to the Babylonian harlot:
An uniform to boys is like a fan
To women; ...
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Meaning of "A phantasy which sometimes seizes warriors, unless they are game as bull-dogs and fox-terriers" in Byron's "Don Juan"
From Byron's Don Juan:
The Russians, having built two batteries on
An isle near Ismail, had two ends in view;
The first was to bombard it, and knock down
The public buildings and ...
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