After Reading Darkness a poem by Lord Byron, it made me think of the possibilities that could lie before us. The first line is "Had a dream, which was not all a dream", when he talks about the "sun" going out Byron is hinting that humanity has lost its faith in god and the presence of loving all living things that comes along with it, which he wishes were a dream but is slowly becoming reality. Without a light to see, people become lost. All that's known for sure is the need to survive, without thinking of the others that also share Earth. The line "Forests were set on fire-but hour by hour, They fell and faded", this is meant to strike a picture of destruction, but isn't that what's happening today? Is the 21st century in darkness and we don't even realize our own downfall? I think 2010 is the closest to "darkness" that the world has ever seen. People are abusing the very thing that has created us, and helped us live for so long, yet hardly anyone cares. Also a large portion that Byron writes about is famine along with death. He talks about famine as a lack of food, but I don't think that's what these people are lacking at all (well maybe a little). I think they're deprived of love and hope. People could never survive without the presence of love, and people wouldn't care to survive if there was nothing to hope or look forward to in the world. When Byron said in Darkness; "Some lay down, and hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd;". At least Byron is acknowledging that there are people who still see the natural the beauty of in world, but why does he make them seem like they’re losing the fight, or better yet not even fighting at all? He’s fighting by writing this poem and bringing awareness to, not only people in the 1800's but, centuries of people yet to exist. So who are the evil men enjoying the Earth's extermination and why aren't the others trying to stop them? Why aren't we, in modern day, trying to stop the men who rest their chins on their clenched hands and smile?
-Athena
( To read the poem click on "Darkness")
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