Imageries in Three Poems of George Gordon Lord Byron
Introduction
This paper is about the imageries in three poems of George Gordon Lord Byron namely: “She Walks in Beauty”, “I Saw Thee Weep”, and “When We Two Parted”.
Imageries are mental pictures evoked through the use of descriptive words and figurative language. There are two levels of Imagery. The first one is the descriptive imagery which accounts to visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, kinesthetic, and thermal which a person sense. The second level is the symbolizing which reveals the other meaning or the symbolical meaning of a certain piece.
George Gordon Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in Aberdeen, Scotland, and inherited his family 's English title at the age of ten, becoming Baron Byron of Rochdale. Abandoned by his father at an early age and resentful of his mother, who he blamed for his being born with a deformed foot, Byron isolated himself during his youth and was deeply unhappy. Though he was the heir to an idyllic estate, the property was run down and his family had no assets with which to care for it. As a teenager, Byron discovered that he was attracted to men as well as women, which made him all the more remote and secretive.
He studied at Aberdeen Grammar School and then Trinity College in Cambridge. During this time Byron collected and published his first volumes of poetry. The first, published anonymously and titled Fugitive Pieces, was printed in 1806 and contained a miscellany of poems, some of which were written when Byron was only fourteen. As a whole, the collection was considered obscene, in part because it ridiculed specific teachers by name, and in part because it contained frank, erotic verses. At the request of a friend, Byron recalled and burned all but four copies of the book, then immediately began compiling a revised version—though it was not published during his lifetime. The next year, however, Byron published his second collection, Hours of Idleness, which contained many of his early
This paper is about the imageries in three poems of George Gordon Lord Byron namely: “She Walks in Beauty”, “I Saw Thee Weep”, and “When We Two Parted”.
Imageries are mental pictures evoked through the use of descriptive words and figurative language. There are two levels of Imagery. The first one is the descriptive imagery which accounts to visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, kinesthetic, and thermal which a person sense. The second level is the symbolizing which reveals the other meaning or the symbolical meaning of a certain piece.
George Gordon Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in Aberdeen, Scotland, and inherited his family 's English title at the age of ten, becoming Baron Byron of Rochdale. Abandoned by his father at an early age and resentful of his mother, who he blamed for his being born with a deformed foot, Byron isolated himself during his youth and was deeply unhappy. Though he was the heir to an idyllic estate, the property was run down and his family had no assets with which to care for it. As a teenager, Byron discovered that he was attracted to men as well as women, which made him all the more remote and secretive.
He studied at Aberdeen Grammar School and then Trinity College in Cambridge. During this time Byron collected and published his first volumes of poetry. The first, published anonymously and titled Fugitive Pieces, was printed in 1806 and contained a miscellany of poems, some of which were written when Byron was only fourteen. As a whole, the collection was considered obscene, in part because it ridiculed specific teachers by name, and in part because it contained frank, erotic verses. At the request of a friend, Byron recalled and burned all but four copies of the book, then immediately began compiling a revised version—though it was not published during his lifetime. The next year, however, Byron published his second collection, Hours of Idleness, which contained many of his early
References: Byron’s Bio. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1562