Obstacles in Byron's Life as a Poet

Born January 22^nd of 1788 in London and dead April 19^th of 1824 in Missologhi, Greece, Lord Byron really made a statement to the world. He influenced our society, changed views, and changed poetry. He was a different sort of individual, doing what he pleased to do and living life in a very scandalous different sort of way known to the society he was born into. It is known that Byron was born with a clubbed-foot (his right one), and that he was highly sensitive about his deformity. To add on to his problems George Gordon Byron, or Lord Byron, discovered that he was attracted to men and women in his early teens. His affection for both genders made Byron live a separate, secretive, and remote life during his youth. When Lord Byron started to write poetry a lot of his poetry was inspired by his affection towards both genders and the love he had towards some specific males and females, which included some of his cousins and some “friends” and possibly even his half-sister with which he lived with for a part of his life. Even though Lord Byron was very popular throughout society, his bisexual relationships made him widely disliked. A lot of his relationship inspired poetry was discouraged from being published by teachers due to Byron’s highly descriptive sexual lines in his poems and inappropriate content. Lord Byron continued to write poetry even though he was criticized for the content of some of his pieces. With time Byron decided to publish some work anonymously and eventually in the end took credit in his published work. Byron’s first poems published received very bad reviews but he didn’t let those bad reviews deter him from writing poetry; instead he published other books of poetry, that in the following year gave him a seat in the House of the Lords. Lord Byron eventually left Europe for good in order to escape all the scandal, his debts, and problems. He continued to write and publish poetry during the time he lived and became a close friend to the famous Romantic poet, Percy Shelley. Lord Byron became one of the most famous poets of his time even though he was greatly disliked by many, but he has become one of the greatest poets in our time because of his influence over society and poetry. What makes Byron such a great poet is that he managed to keep writing words that mattered to him in his poems instead of the words the society he lived in wanted, it made him be an individual and it made his overcome the obstacles in his life.