Lord Byron's The Year Without A Summer
The poem Darkness is the oddball of these poems, where in fact, there is no positive diction in this poem at all. Except, for maybe the one word ‘Happy’ which I will talk about later on.
Byron wrote Darkness in 1816, known as The Year Without a Summer. It was a 3 year weather disaster which occurred when dust from the eruption of Mt. Tambora in 1815 has spread throughout the globe, and blocked the sunlight. And thus with no sunlight, the years 1815-1817 had no summer. This led to devastating worldwide harvest failures, leading to famine, and civil unrest which is what the surface of this poem is based on. As being written in the romantic era, Byron vividly describes the hardships of the common man by using apocalyptic scenes and the loss …show more content…
And the death of the master can symbolize the death of the woman’s love for the man.
-Unfortunately, the only faithful man left has a wife who doesn’t love him anymore.
-I can say that this scene may be the most heroic out of all of the scenes in Darkness, but this still is a failed heroic attempt. The master, or the love was long gone, so the man basically had nothing to fight for.
c. “Happy were those who dealt within the eye
Of the volcanoes,”
“A fearful hope was all the world contained;”
- juxtapositioning, so without love, there was no hope, only a fearful hope.
-hoping won’t die, knowing that they’ll die. Fearful to hope, to live another day.
-those who killed themselves in the volcano felt one second of natural light. Felt one second of love, which seems more worth it than suffering for another day without love.
a. personification
-”And the clouds perish’d: Darkness had no need
Of aid from them - She was the Universe.”
-Woman as the universe, which turned to darkness, leading me to the interpretation of the whole
Byron wrote Darkness in 1816, known as The Year Without a Summer. It was a 3 year weather disaster which occurred when dust from the eruption of Mt. Tambora in 1815 has spread throughout the globe, and blocked the sunlight. And thus with no sunlight, the years 1815-1817 had no summer. This led to devastating worldwide harvest failures, leading to famine, and civil unrest which is what the surface of this poem is based on. As being written in the romantic era, Byron vividly describes the hardships of the common man by using apocalyptic scenes and the loss …show more content…
And the death of the master can symbolize the death of the woman’s love for the man.
-Unfortunately, the only faithful man left has a wife who doesn’t love him anymore.
-I can say that this scene may be the most heroic out of all of the scenes in Darkness, but this still is a failed heroic attempt. The master, or the love was long gone, so the man basically had nothing to fight for.
c. “Happy were those who dealt within the eye
Of the volcanoes,”
“A fearful hope was all the world contained;”
- juxtapositioning, so without love, there was no hope, only a fearful hope.
-hoping won’t die, knowing that they’ll die. Fearful to hope, to live another day.
-those who killed themselves in the volcano felt one second of natural light. Felt one second of love, which seems more worth it than suffering for another day without love.
a. personification
-”And the clouds perish’d: Darkness had no need
Of aid from them - She was the Universe.”
-Woman as the universe, which turned to darkness, leading me to the interpretation of the whole