Questions tagged [lord-byron]
Questions about the works of the poet George Noel Gordon, 6th Baron Byron, better known as Lord Byron (1788 – 1824), or his life as a writer.
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Meaning of capitalized nouns in a Lord Byron poem
I am referencing to Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (see: Wikipedia article).
Here is the opening stanza of the work (TO IANTHE):
Not in those climes where I have late been straying,
Though ...
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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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Who is "Luna" in Byron's "To Mary, On Receiving Her Picture"?
Here are the fourth and fifth stanzas of "To Mary, On Receiving Her Picture" by Lord Byron:
Here, I behold its beauteous hue;
But where's the beam so sweetly straying,
Which gave a lustre ...
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Stories From the Year Without a Summer
I have seen the story many times: Percy and Mary Shelley (not yet wed) paid an a visit to Lord Byron in 1816. Attributed now to the eruption at Mount Tambora, this year was unseasonably cool. Spending ...
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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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Meaning of a stanza in Byron's Don Juan
Canto 6, stanza 52, from Byron's Don Juan:
Dudù, as has been said, was a sweet creature,
Not very dashing, but extremely winning,
With the most regulated charms of feature,
Which ...
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Meaning of "'T was the boy's "mite," and, like the "widow's," may Perhaps be weigh'd hereafter, if not now"
From Byron's Don Juan:
'T was the boy's "mite," and, like the "widow's," may
Perhaps be weigh'd hereafter, if not now;
But whether such things do or do not weigh,
All who have loved,...
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