tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20308872838155991152024-03-13T00:34:51.876-07:00Byron's ClubTurner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-40074061001061655322011-01-06T19:52:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.730-07:00November 15, 2009-- Prose Poem<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.39463720153659293" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: cyan;">December 10</span><span style="color: cyan;">, 2006. I was waiting for my bus to take me to school when I got a chilling call from my best friend. Her name was Sydney and she was hysterical. I could almost feel her tears through the phone and when she finally told me what had happened my heart skipped not only one but two beats. She told me that he had passed in his sleep and told me what an aneurysm was. I knew she would never be the Sydney I knew for seven years knowing her dad was gone. I couldn't understand her misery or pain nor did I want to. But I tried to understand. I never thought that would happen to a friend. Let alone me. November 15, 2009. My worst nightmare. I received the same chilling call only it was my father who had passed. Time stopped, and everything went black. Coming back to reality I see red, blue and white lights flashing and people crying hysterically and the dog barking. I'm trying bust through the door but being held back by two men dressed in navy blue. They were telling me to calm down and stand back. The medics were my enemies that day. I just wanted to see him for one last time. Although now looking back I'm so glad I didn't. The last image of my fathers face is him saying "I'll see ya Bay" The keyword in that is smiling. I know now that if I would have gone in that house to see my father it would have haunted me for life. Now, he is my best friend in my rem and he is the built in heater in my body that keeps me warm. He is the gleaming flames in the sky at night fall and he is the hot ball of gas in the day time that lives in the sky. He is wind that makes me cold but whispers "hello's" to me. I know he is always around because I can feel his love swarm my body. November 15, 2009 is the day I will never forget.</span></span></span>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-80493418985571165092011-01-06T19:09:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.751-07:00Community Blog-- The Best Of BlakeAfter reading "Little boy Lost" and after "Little Boy Found" by William Blake, From Pang Thao's response I thought it was really insightful. The way they explained their thoughts and feelings on the poems made it a lot more simple to understanding what Blake was trying to convey to all readers. In my opinion Pang did a great job with what he wrote. Not only because he put his feelings in the response but what he thought Blake's feelings were about his amazing writing. I personally found the poems very inspirational because it seems like the young boy had to posses a very strong will and want to be happy and he had to be very positive for himself to keep holding on and hoping that god will answer his prayers. I liked the way William Blake wrote the poems. He did almost like a "cliff hanger" in "Little Lost Boy Lost", he made the readers believe that the young boy didn't make it out okay. It makes us have this feeling of sadness and almost a mad feeling because we just wanted the little boy to be okay and happy with his mother. But then when you read "Little Boy Found" you realise that everything panned out okay for the young boy and god answered his prayers by leading him to his mother. I love poems, song, books, and movies that do that to you. Give you a feeling, any feeling at all. It almost makes you feel like you can relate to the poem, song, book or movie. Now that I am older I have a good understanding of poems and I realise that writing can give you a feeling. I find it fascinating. I think my favorite part about reading Pang's response to the poems is how he linked the song "Amazing Grace" to the poem. Like I said previously it is great that people can relate songs to poems and that is exactly what he did in his response.<br />
If you are interested in reading this poem and Pang's response for yourself then click here, <a href="http://www.theworksofwb.blogspot.com/">http://www.theworksofwb.blogspot.com/</a>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-42474706208847664132011-01-06T17:24:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:20:14.065-07:00Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> My first reaction when I saw this poem was that it was going to relate to the medical field in a way because it has the word “doctor” in it. But to my utter surprise that is not the case at all. Even though this poem does not relate to us medical students at CAL I have decided to deepen our understanding on this short poem by Lord Byron.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">This poem was actually a response that John Murray, Byron’s publisher, asked him to write for a <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/347.html">"tragedy submitted by Byron's erstwhile friend, Dr. J. W. Polidori</a>”. While I was still researched this poem I stumbled across <a href="http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/susan-wolfson/">another blog</a> that made me understand the context of the poem even more. The blog explained the background information of how this poem became what it is and I will share it.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The whole poem is actually a rejection to Dr. J. W. Polidori, who is in reality Lord Byron’s personal doctor. John Murray goes to Byron and urgently asked him to write this rejection letter to the doctor, this whole thing is awkward for Byron, but he does it anyway and writes the rejection in verse. Long story short, this poem explains the rejection, where Byron refers to some unsuccessful play previous to the letter and does a really good job of writing a poem.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/347.html">Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play</a> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">was written on August 21<sup>st</sup>, 1817 and was first published in 1830 by Moore in <i>Letters and Journals of Lord Byron</i>. This poem only takes like 5 minutes to read and I recommend that you read it fully so that you understand it better.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Once you know that this poem is a rejection to the doctor, written by Byron, from John Murray it is easier to understand. </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<div style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 1 Dear Doctor, I have read your play, </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 2 Which is a good one in its way,</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 3 Purges the eyes, and moves the bowels,</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 4 And drenches handkerchiefs like towels</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 5 With tears that, in a flux of grief,</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 6 Afford hysterical relief</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 7 To shatter'd nerves and quicken'd pulses,</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span></div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> 8 Which your catastrophe convulses.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">These are the first lines of the poem that introduce the rejection. I understand that John Murray (who is the one that gave the rejection the actual thoughts) is telling Dr. Polidori that he has read the play and that the play is good in its own way, that it is gruesome, gut wrenching, it makes one come suddenly with emotion, it affords funny release to nervous bodies, because of those are the causes that his catastrophe gives off (referring to the feeling the play convokes). </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">This is the way the whole poem goes, a funny rhyming thing going on. Toward the middle is when Byron writes how the play has been a failure and is compared to other plays including a play written by Byron himself (<i>Manfred</i>). </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">At first it seemed to me like there was no significance to this poem, but upon further readings and with help of the two websites I visited I was able to understand the meaning below all of the rhymes and, in reality, funny words. I really recommend that you read this because it's a better way to understand some of the things Lord Byron did for his friends when asked. It shows his strong character because it was awkward to reject his personal doctor but he did it. And thanks to that rejection on behalf of Byron we have this poem that you really should read.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-38432872735618202492011-01-06T16:56:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.728-07:00Community Blog Assignment<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The blog “ The Life of John Keats: A Romantic Poet” By Darian Washington, <span class="post-labels"><span>K. Hutchison</span></span>, <span class="post-labels"><span>Andrew Torrey</span></span>, <span class="post-labels"><span>Nicole Brown</span></span>, it’s set up is very easy to navigate, and posts are clearly labeled. Each post that I have read is well written, and clearly descriptive.<span> </span>Authors of each blog have a good picture to go along with their text, my favorite post probably has to be “ The Rose”. From line one I was stunned, my breath almost taken away literally. Most poetry that I have read makes me think to even come close to comprehension, when this prose poem paints a solid clear picture in my head. Instantly I am connected into the writer’s thoughts and feelings, as if the author was in this very room. The simile usage is absolutely spectacular, from a brown bear to something as personal as one’s heart or feelings. <span> </span>Each thought is connected to a meaning, the theme stays consistent with the desert of cacti and crazed rattle snake. Using the analogy of a prisoner worked wonderful to show the want a prisoner would have, just like one might have for a loved one out of reach from their limits.<span> </span>What I like most about this specific post was how at the start you think that it will only be about happiness and love, by the time you reach the end of the stanza you have reached a phase of despair. Hopelessness was another key point at the end. The blog was put together in a very organized and fashionable manner that really fits together that made me want to continue browsing through it. Each picture is very important because they themselves include so much symbolism that goes with the poem. This blog is greatly detailed and informational, even if you only read one post, you will learn at least one interesting thing. John Keats makes some more sense after reading just a few posts on this blog. Many helpful links are included such as a link to most popular poems, to sites of knowledge of Keats, all the way to a link to none other but my blog itself. Overall the Keats Blog by these four was a great piece of work that deserves credibility.</div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-52744863471926433272011-01-06T14:35:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.737-07:00Ode to Mr.Turner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3he8K98Qjnzgg6cAVduiPi88t4IKylSqb-vyzDCq7B5WTJiUJso8cb2rFh3n65mroArnpkV8ZaRV8Kp4TwqMgpY4vW7k-dQ_bJH0h_ycmGvqoXV7IPBG5P2X9ZwlT1X_O66y_g3kNih5/s1600/Snapshot_20110106_33.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3he8K98Qjnzgg6cAVduiPi88t4IKylSqb-vyzDCq7B5WTJiUJso8cb2rFh3n65mroArnpkV8ZaRV8Kp4TwqMgpY4vW7k-dQ_bJH0h_ycmGvqoXV7IPBG5P2X9ZwlT1X_O66y_g3kNih5/s320/Snapshot_20110106_33.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Dear Mr.Turner, thanks for being such a cool guy. You deserve that billboard.Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-74743758796216523992011-01-06T00:18:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.745-07:00Makin' Magic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio-9_MZrud16FV5Bz3wiIK1NprMOpz9krGYHFmeY0ebpH4bXBdGnkpmvg2xqjubjQIeCB41pMWpdK0YVQPUmEOsBXxOt-JqMRFqvsCjD9loBYJCsLeS7v-PuFYCk4_p3m4MFaDOyQe-u7v/s1600/Bishop%252520Don%252520Magic%252520Juan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio-9_MZrud16FV5Bz3wiIK1NprMOpz9krGYHFmeY0ebpH4bXBdGnkpmvg2xqjubjQIeCB41pMWpdK0YVQPUmEOsBXxOt-JqMRFqvsCjD9loBYJCsLeS7v-PuFYCk4_p3m4MFaDOyQe-u7v/s320/Bishop%252520Don%252520Magic%252520Juan.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>Meet Don "Magic" Juan. A well known guy in the music industry. Known most famously for being a hip-hop artist, he was first introduced to the public by Snoop Dogg as Snoop's very own "spiritual adviser". Secondly, he is known for being a fashion designer starring in various rap music videos for his high class taste in style. Lastly he is popular for being a retired high end pimp from Chicago. Don "Magic" Juan's birth name is actually Donald Campbell but decided to change it for the publicity I suppose. What better name for an x-pimp than Don Juan? The name is now slang for "womanizer" in Spanish. The story of D.J. was written by romantic poet Lord Byron which wasn't too far from the life Byron actually lived. If you haven't already read the previous post by Baily on the poem I'll give you a little background information. Basically Don Juan was a player, and in the end is punished for the despair he had left to every woman in his path. That's about it. Just kidding read the poem yourself to find out what happens and the full story, there’s much more to it than that. So the statement Don "Magic" Juan is making with his "new" name is probably accurate for Magic's old lifestyle. Here are some of the song's Don guest stars in, adding a little bit of his own magic to each, "Pimpin Ain't Easy", "P.I.M.P Remix”, "Pimp on" and a classical favorite "A Pimp's Christmas song". It may seem like Don's life is all work and no play but he fits in the fun when he can, that is when Don's not too busy serving as a bishop for his church. Christianity is the reason Don no longer works in the explicit business. Church turned his whole life around making him realize the person he could be, and that he didn’t have to stick with such a shady business. It also must have converted him to read fine literature. Unlike Don Juan the fictional character, Don "Magic" Juan will be going to heaven.Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-41488168219150446512011-01-06T00:15:00.001-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.732-07:00Creating a Community<div class="ReadMsgBody" id="mpf0_readMsgBodyContainer" onclick="return Control.invoke('MessagePartBody','_onBodyClick',event);"><div class="SandboxScopeClass ExternalClass" id="mpf0_MsgContainer"><style>
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</style>Another great Poetic site is The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Tribute to William Blake. Melissa Bolinger, Andy Abelein and other Romanticism fanatics pick apart one of Blake's best known poems, and most controversial. They do this by using videos, reviews, articles and their own thoughts and interpretations on the poem. There are several different interpretations of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell poem expressed on the website from other people too. Each including the views of the romantic man who made it, William Blake.To visit it for yourself go to http://heavenandhell-maa.blogspot.com/.The site looks professional, yet light and easy to read. The colors are not too harsh for the eyes and the clouds as the background are very embracing. May I add the natural view of the sky is very poetic as well. Ultimately my favorite part of the blog is the post entitled "Awesome Video On William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" posted by Andy Abelein. The intense music made my arm hair stand on end. The paintings made the video interesting. The context made me think of how we're just people on Earth and the imagery from the text kinda freaked me out (it could have also been the music along with the pictures). I like the fact that this blog is made to interpret a single poem, instead of being so broad like many others. The truth is, I had no idea what this poem was saying before I visited this blog. The attention spent line by line really shows understanding and helps others comprehend what the romantics were trying to get across. Another excellent post is "Nature and the Soul" posted by Melissa Bolinger. A prose poem about the connection between humans and the outdoors. Just like in previous poems by the romantics I think Melissa is right about people becoming too selfish to think about other living beings. Blogs like this is what keeps Romanticism alive, and I'm sure if William Blake (along with others) saw today the impact he had on the future he would be proud. </div></div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-11996650990012178732011-01-05T21:54:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:20:14.060-07:00A Question of Nature (Reading Response #3)<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">A Question of Nature: Byron and Wordsworth</span></i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> by J. Andrew Hubbell is an article that goes into depth from the views of Romantic eco-criticism to do a Wordsworthian eco-poesis of Lord Byron using the terms of “dwelling” and “nature”. (In the rest of the paragraph I will summarize the article I have read and try to explain parts that I feel need further explanation. My purpose is to summarize as best as I can and I have no intentions of plagiarism, all credit goes to the author J. Andrew Hubbell.) Though Lord Byron is ignored by most critics and seen as an outsider to Romantic poetry he is still an “important Romantic nature writer”. This article explains the dwelling, wandering, nature, culture, and the environment as binaries (something based on two parts) to the final product of important Romantic nature writers. Lord Byron is one of those writers, but for different reasons than most of them. Three binaries are what help describe the Romantic nature writers, and they specify on nature and dwelling. The main dwelling-wandering binary reinforces the other two which are nature-culture and ecocentric-anthropocentric binaries. According to Hubbell dwelling is to embed oneself within the texture of one’s place. This means that one is fixed into a certain place and its surroundings for deeper reasons other than where that place is. Dwelling can also become a synonym for “rootedness” because there’s more extensive action the greater the length of time spent in a place. Wandering is referred to as “touristic mentality” because it becomes a state of mind that does not understand the environment for what it actually is. So they view the environment as a resource instead of valuing its meaning. Wanderers don’t necessarily see the depth of life, but the outer top “beauty” or in their eyes “resources” and they are more self-centered. Hubbell refers to nature as nature as wild, unspoiled backcountry, the antithesis of the modern, anthropocentric city. This means that the city is tame, neat buildings that we see today, and according to Wordsworth a place where one achieves less. The article refers to nature as a place where a poet can “strip off corrupting layers of culture, and then dwell, achieving environmental consciousness.” This goes back to combining nature and dwelling because the sense of true nature is felt; whereas the city is combined with culture because it is more corrupt and unattached to nature. The same goes with ecocentric which is nature centered and anthropocentric which is self centered. Now that all definitions are explained, I can explain the rest of the article that has to do more with Lord Byron and where he fits into this question of nature. According to the definition of eco-poet Byron is excluded because he spent most of his life going from one tour to another and never dwelt anywhere, he was a wanderer. Hubbell states that, “Byron recognizes that as soon as ‘nature’ is represented in art, it becomes part of culture; there is to ‘nature’ in art”. With this Hubbell is explaining how Byron explains his thought in rhetorical statements and questions making his point clear to others. It also shows how Byron views nature and culture as “different parts of the same whole”. Byron had a way of viewing both sides of the binaries and bringing both aspects into his life. This is proven when Hubbell ponders on whether Byron’s wandering was a sort of dwelling or not. To further explain this Hubbell writes of Byron’s trips to Greece and how they helped Byron be a “dweller in the landscape”. And in the end Byron achieved the same sense of place through his dwelling in Greece that Wordsworth achieved through his dwelling in the Lakes. This understanding for nature can be derived from either dwelling or wandering in the end because it is possible to gain that knowledge of culture and environment. </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">After thoroughly reading through Hubbell’s amazing article [that I personally though I would not understand and not enjoy, which turned out to be wrong], I can understand why Lord Byron was not accepted as easily as other poets in the Romanticism society. I knew that his sexual preferences, descriptive poems, and way of life had made him widely unpopular and made him disliked, but I would have never guessed that his understanding for nature, or even his trips to other countries, would have affected his life as a poet. This article has made me think about so many things that I had not thought of when researching Romanticism at first. It has also made me understand Lord Byron and the question of nature and even how his poetry was affected by his beliefs of nature and wandering. Byron’s poems really convey his beliefs of wandering and city, a perfect example would be <i>Don Juan</i>, with the more “city-boy’ poem than actually explaining nature in depths such as other Romantic poets. But in the end I can conclude that no matter the life style one may live we can all still have an understanding for the environment and the city, for culture and nature, for being self centered and nature centered. I think that as long as there is a balance that one can live with, one that understands with both sides of life, that we, as people in general, will be able to live a life better for others and nature. A life where we don’t only care about people or what’s on the earth, but also for the earth we live in and the environment we dwell (or wander) on.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I interpreted ‘She Walks in Beauty” to be a romantic poem on a clear description of natural beauty. Byron writes what he feels and not what he thinks, it comes from within. His descriptions of a starry sky speak to me, a cloudless climb is like a perfect accomplishment. The climb or accomplishment could have not gone better for Byron. This is a love poem, describing how beautiful the women is, also how her personality as well as her looks are proportional. If it was a true love statement or just about admiration is left to the reader, because this poem was written about his cousin, whom he had met at a party. Byron describes a night with bright stars and compares this women to the night. She creates a tender light with the opposites her beauty, this light is described as a gaudy light; a light that can’t be seen in the daytime, one that the gods don’t even honor. Inside this poem light and dark come together when she appears, the eyes are where they meet, a portal to one’s soul. Byron comments on how opposites meet in the soul, and that if the light and dark proportions were off her beauty would be ruined, and only be half wonderful. Hidden within the poem is alliteration that is magnificently used. “She walks in Beauty” is a poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron, written in 1814 and published in 1815 in “Hebrew Melodies”. Several months before the author met and married his first wife, Anna Milbanke, Lord Byron attended a party at Lady Sitwell’s, and Byron met his cousin, the beautiful Mrs. Wilmot, and her beauty inspired the author. The author was inspired by the sight of his cousin, and she became the essence of his poem about her. it is a brilliant poem, with some of the concepts not being too hard to comprehend. Byron was a strange fellow, for having relationships with his cousins or men, but the way this poem talks about the beauty of a women that he met at a party is incredible for such a non-causal meeting.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-57445547516454148442011-01-04T20:24:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.740-07:00Your Future (Prose Poem)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span>Darkness, a scary place of beasts and unnatural beings. Its has lots of power, don’t underestimate it, or you to could suffer what some have suffered a life time. The dark holds many secrets only a few can tell them, the ones that come back form his hold. But if you do no wrong you might get set free form living in such conditions, go to the light that shines so bright and live with peace and grace. But if you do wrong there is a place for you, not a bright and lovely place of course, but a reward of a deep and dark pit. This pit makes people lose hold of their sanity and changes so often that its hard to tell where you are. The pit is dark and thick with spirits and wont let them go. If only you did your rights instead of wrong you might not have to see such a sight. People who do no wrong, even though there is only a few, live happy free spirits and aren’t weighed don’t with chains. There is no choice of where you go but there is your past and present time that is the key to what road you will travel. If you make it to the light that’s shines ever so bright there will be happy and joyful pleasures that one can not imagine. If like to have fun and live without fear, regret, or seriousness, then only time can tell if you will suffer your worst nightmare. Maybe you will go to the light and party with your parents and family up there, have a good time and be free. It’s the choice you make right then and now what type of road to travel. Once its too late there is no going back, your future is what you make it.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-41254966404234896862011-01-04T20:00:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:20:14.064-07:00The River (Prose Poem)<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">We were finally going to go to the river again, to spend time with family and friends, to enjoy another day of summer, to go swimming. Who knew the day would end in misery? A day so lovely and filled with memories would be haunted by that one thing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The day was hot, the skies were blue, the wind was mellow, the sun was bright, it was a perfect day to be there. You could feel the anxiety in the car to get to the river, the anticipation. You could hear the hum of the radio below your parents’ conversation and the gleeful conversation of the kids. It was a peaceful day, it was vacation, it was summer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">We are the first to arrive; we pick the best table, with the best view. We were only three families, but still a large group. The view from our table was one of the best, the distance from the river, the play ground, and parking-lot was about the same. We wanted the best view, the best distanced table, and we got it. The parents said it was in order to keep an eye on the kids, so that they could be safe. It didn’t matter to us kids we were at the river with friends.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The view is never appreciated, but it is known. You can see the bridge, the river running beneath it, and the trees with their deep green shades providing a habitat for the wildlife, and yes a perfect view of the kids that would soon be in the water.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The kids know the routine, help the parents unload everything and take it to the picnic table. After that is done you are free to go play. Oh and play we do. The younger kids stay by the shallow end of the river, they know the danger of those calm looking waters, their parents tell them. The older kids know too, but they want to swim. That’s what we do. The water is cold, but when you want to beat your friends into the water, who cares?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Oh yes, the water is freezing. The deeper you go in the colder the water, but the blissful warmness of the sun helps. The teasing and joking around makes everyone want to beat each other to get into the river and to the other side. But we still remember the warnings our parents tell us, that even though the river looks calm, it can be dangerous. With undercurrents that can sweep faster than you know, with coldness that can cause cramps, or just the river, the water, the deepness. So we cross, with caution, taking care of each other, working with our arms and legs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The smaller kids play in the sand; they make bridges, castles, motes. They try to catch small fish that stay in the shallows.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Our parents call us to go eat, but we want to continue being in the river. With its cold water surrounding us until we no longer feel the cold, but the feel of the water. Till we no longer feel the fear of the dangers, but the thrill of the game.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The day passes in this same fashion, swimming, eating, the guys playing soccer, the kids playing in the sand, the parents speaking. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">In the end we all end up in the playground, on the swings and see-saw. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">It feels as it should, the shadows of the night are starting to appear, its dusk. The trees that once provided shade for the wilderness now provide shadows for the night. Without the suns warm rays of light the rivers’ water now appears eerie, dangerous like our parents said, like the depth of a horror movie. We never expected the news. The sorrow of hearing what could happen, all because of the river.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">We saw the car at first, a police car. They were common at this time of the day because the park was going to close. We were one of the last groups of people left at the park. We were almost done packing everything up when the cop got out and asked us about the river. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">He asked us if we had seen anyone on a small yellow boat on the river. It was supposed to be a man, a big man, a grown up. This was surprising, because no one had been in the section of river for a while. It was almost night time and we hadn’t seen anyone in the river for a long time. The cop said to keep an eye out and to have a good night. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">There was surprise on everyone’s face, with wonder, worry, fear for what could have happened to that man. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">We didn’t know him, but there was worry. We looked, saw nothing, found nothing, there was only the river.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The river that was used for one’s pleasure and others misery. We wondered what could have happened to the man. Went home wondering if we would hear of this incident on the news, all because of the river. A river that looked so inviting for our fun, a river that could very much take a life if messed with. A river that is good and bad, calm and violent. A river that has life, but can very easily take it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-10978849626599629442011-01-03T23:30:00.001-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.720-07:00To Close the Doors and Windows of Conciousness for a Time. R.R. 3<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://0-find.galegroup.com.lrc-srv.mhcc.edu/gtx/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28KE%2CNone%2C47%29Byron%2C+nietzsche%2C+and+the+mystery+of+forgetting%24&sgHitCountType=None&inPS=true&sort=Relevance&searchType=BasicSearchForm&tabID=T002&prodId=AONE&searchId=R1&currentPosition=1&userGroupName=mthoodcc&docId=A14872348&docType=IAC">Byron, Nietzsche, and the Mystery of Forgetting</a></span><br />
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In the article Byron, Nietzsche and The Mystery of Forgetting, James Soderholm exploits the similarities between Wilhelm Nietzsche and Byron's play Manfred, along with the irony of mindful forgetfulness. Manfred is a play best known for its shocking plot, but even more shocking the reality that encouraged Byron to write the play. Crafted after his own life, the show opened a gateway to freedom for Byron from the loneliness of his secrets. Thus helping him deal with the pain. As an intentional result of the plays release Byron enjoyed the humiliation that his two ex-lovers; ex-wife Annabella Byron, and half-sister Augusta Leigh had to endure in England while he lay low out of town. One of the most important scenes in Manfred is when a discouraged boy calls upon spirits to help him do what he could not, forget the past and move on. Next he was, instead, handed eternal memory. In real life Lord Byron wished he could escape from the mistakes he made in the past. In his heart he knew the mind is a wonderful thing, but can not erase what is real. If Byron could intentionally forget anything he wished, I'm sure after the play was released would be the time to use the skill. Nietzsche mentioned the concept of mindful forgetfulness in several of his own writings such as a series of books entitled Daybreak, Disadvantages of History for Life then again in Essay of the Genealogy of Morals. Even though one could say Nietzsche was an "expert" in the art of consciously forgetting Nietzsche wouldn't except that his mind was actively forgetting. An example is this quote by thee refusing to believe that the plot for Manfred had been taken from a previous play written by Goethe entitled Faust, <br />
"I have no word, only a glance, for those who dare to pronounce the word Faust’ in the presence of Manfred".<br />
Another example is when Nietzsche contradicts himself when he writes an article summarized by James, "We must fasten on those qualities most admirable in our heroes and neglect what is contradictory, absurd, or otherwise disagreeable in their works." Nietzsche puts Byron before him as a hero, when Byron is no such thing. Byron, Nietzsche and The Mystery of Forgetting is about James pointing out the paradoxes of Nietzsche excessive writing on the mechanics of forgetfulness yet indulges in forgetting himself.<br />
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My favorite part of James Soderholm’s article is where he quotes Kierkegaard,<br />
"The more poetically one remembers, the more easily one forgets, for to remember poetically is actually only an expression of forgetting". The quote makes you question what forgetting really is to the mind. If you remember only the good, you’re forgetting the bad. If you remember the bad you’re often forgetting the good. To think poetically is to look at everything with a new eye, and see beauty. So no matter what situation placed in, you’re always mindfully forgetting certain aspects. As for choosing your memorize, I’m not sure if that can be done. Automatically when a person goes through a tragic experience I believe the mind blocks the pain and fear that you at one time felt, but is easier to survive without. Over the summer I was in a small car crash. When my friend and I finally got home after the scene we tried to bring up the emotions we felt while it was happening, but neither of us could remember. This is one of my only stories of active forgetfulness that I recall. The concept of the mind and why it chooses some memories while discarding others is interesting. I think it’s a good concept for James to bring in with romantic poets since romanticism is about being more actively involved with your natural abilities. Maybe there is a way to control what you remember, or maybe more access to the mind would make situations even more difficult to forget. James mentions that Wordsworth is a "lover of memory" and can even recall the garments he wore on certain days. This could be why the romantic poet Lord Byron had such a hard time coping with his mistakes, he was so in tuned that his mind wouldn’t let him free. Just like with Byron I feel like remembering everything would make it difficult to be happy. Nietzsche said it best, "There could be no happiness, no cheerfulness, no hope, no pride, no present, without forgetfulness".</div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-6302932300978783272011-01-03T18:41:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.741-07:00Winter Winds (Prose Poem)A crisp winter night spent in the same place were so many memories were made in summers passed. I never attended the school but every time I went there I found myself at ease, at home. <br />
This specific night I strayed from the group of people to sit on the swing furthest away. I wanted to enjoy the darkness in peace. I hadn't realized the chains were full of ice until the brisk wind was hitting my face but I couldn't feel it on my hands. I didn't care. The stars were so distracting I couldn't look anywhere else. The sky completely clear. I had forgotten I was leaning back in the swing, refusing to look away from the soft sky, my arms quickly fell asleep. I then forced myself against gravity and pulled my body up strait.<br />
"How could things have changed so quickly?"<br />
Under these same stars after the sun went down on warm summer nights, I would listen to the sweet sound of a close friend playing out his dreams on the guitar. This was our sacred place. Somewhere to come when it was too late to go anywhere else. A place to go to search for shooting stars and <u>real</u> conversation. Everyone has forgotten that now. Always looking for something better to do because the people present aren't enough. Just some kids you have one or two things in common with. Not enough to enjoy the wonder of a simple night.<br />
There's no way to describe the summer from two years ago, except... maybe.. free. We were never bored, we didn't even know the meaning of the word.<br />
I opened my eyes wider in the darkness. I heard the murmuring getting louder with more excitement in the unfamiliar voices. "Are we leaving?" I asked in disbelief. I didn't even have to ask, I already knew the answer. Dragging my feet on the padded ground beneath me the swing slowed down enough for me to agonizingly slide off. After I shoved my slightly blue hands into my pockets I walked away knowing it wouldn't be long before I visited the familiar place again.Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-74566012614547878302011-01-03T12:30:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.744-07:00Eternal Knowledge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi92GiMRxAQx4Fm2f1BO_tYTl56B52npKteW_GTSQQl6p27OqXj9m8S51qXpFkZ7Jr6GrzIjyPvbjXsj0vX8PLu40nbgp-rhDUll1azrmmUIaPqd1qGJVNy669wLg-zQDTOVdLUhg5_oNL0/s1600/Lord+Byron.....jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi92GiMRxAQx4Fm2f1BO_tYTl56B52npKteW_GTSQQl6p27OqXj9m8S51qXpFkZ7Jr6GrzIjyPvbjXsj0vX8PLu40nbgp-rhDUll1azrmmUIaPqd1qGJVNy669wLg-zQDTOVdLUhg5_oNL0/s320/Lord+Byron.....jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br />
While looking on Etsy.com I came across this painting of Lord Byron. I had never thought that a poems purpose was to leave an impact.I always thought of poetry as another way to express oneself like dancing, or playing an instrument, and the information got leaked out into the public. Then again even dancing and music are meant to provoke emotions from audiences. But was that the point at the beginning? Anyway the artist Lydia Burris explained that she made this after hearing that Byron made a request before he died; He'd rather someone make a wine glass from his skull than have it uselessly rot inside the Earth. Byron believed that whoever were to drink from the glass would inherit some of his roaming minds thoughts and ideas. It sounds like something Romans used to believe from hods, and i think that's what Lydia was trying to portray with the stoic face, and neutral color pallet. My favorite part is how she used a dead tree for the branches of knowledge coming from his mind, and the cracked forehead as if the only purpose for these vessels is to carry around our brains like greenery in a garden pot. Also like a living thing a tree must be fed nourishment. Lord Byron's love for literature, along with many other things, certainly fed his appetite. Another reason it was appropriate for Lydia to use a tree was Byron's close mind with the natural world. Like all romantics Byron believed in inhaling organic beauty instead of crushing it with bare feet. The quote "The Immortal Ideas of a Dead Poet" is appropriate for not only all poets, but people who choose to share their beliefs. I don't see why every human on the planet can not be a poet of their own, we all write our thoughts down. The difference is not all are made into books, though still equally important. Individualism is a strong piece of romanticism too, so I hope that Byron would agree with me if he were still here. Even the tiniest sentence with just enough creativity and faithfulness to the author's heart can be a masterpiece. <br />
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-AthenaTurner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-73897603293901530552011-01-02T16:44:00.001-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.742-07:00Reading Response #3<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Byron, Poetics and History, By Jane Stabler of Cambridge University.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In the article, Byron, Poetics and History I think that Jane Stable’s goal is to make it simple for us to understand, and to put his life in a nutshell for us. She also seems to be putting more of her opinion in the article than anything. A lot of her writing is related to the historical debates of Byron’s time. Stabler responds to some recent studies of publishing and audienceing Romantic period which I don’t know if I’m right but I think she is saying this because maybe she thinks that it doesn’t need to be anymore publisized, Stabler says that Byron’s politics developed in response to contemporary (the current conditions at his time influenced the way he wrote and what ever it mat be that he decided he wanted to write.) culture and history. In that statement she is explaining to us how Byron, or anyone for that matter thinks of what they want to write about or our writing style. In my opinion the answer is it’s the way you were raised, whats going on around you at the time you decided you want to write. I think that this article is perfect for my blog entery’s because the article in a sense is talking about what his up bringing was and how it relates to his writing, poems and memoirs. it seemed like the article was for her to put her questions out there and while writing them down and publishing them figuring out the answers to them. Although she didn’t answer all of her questions it seems like she on a mission to figure each and every one of them out. There is one sentence from the article that went with one of my blogs. She describes that Don Juan is his greatest poem and got him a lot of fame. She also explains he received a lot of his information from British politics. It the sense that he wrote about the drama in Britain. And how sneaky and cut throat the people were back then. Like for example a quote from the saying is “unpublished letters between Byron’s publisher’s and his friends revealing a powerful impulse among his contemporaries (friends, peer group) to direct his controversial poetic style to their own political ends.” Basically the author is explaining to us that these people were taking Byron’s words and using them to advance in whatever it is that they are trying to accomplish. He was being tricked and used for his brilliance. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: cyan;">I think this article makes a lot of sense and it pretty much hit the target in facts. I’ve done a lot of research on Byron. And everything that Jane Stabler said reminded me in someway about my blog posts. For example I think she is talking about privacy in her article, I believe that Lord Byron was a very secretive person. He liked his privacy. I would imagine that he would at least just because he had to keep a lot of events in his like quiet. And Jane Stabler is talking about how sometimes poets don’t want there stuff out in the open. I also believe that she did a good job because she also covered the negatives in his life. Which there were a lot. He had ups and downs but it didn’t seem like he lived with regrets. He just wrote. Lord Byron took the experiences of his life and turned them into poetry that the world will never leave behind.</span></span></div></div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-78754094201143933772011-01-02T15:31:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.749-07:00Byron's Masterpeice- Don Juan<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">The poem Don Juan is very long so summarizing it would be more understandabl, so I did some research and this is the summary of Don Juan that made the most sense to me so I would think that any other teen would understand it somewhat too. These are not my words because the poem is the size of a book. I think it's over eighty cantos long. So this makes it more simple for the reader.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Byron dedicates the poem to the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey; satirizes Southey and the other Lake Poets for their politics, pretentions and verse; and insults the Foreign Secretary, Castlereagh.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Don Juan is born to Don Jose and Donna Inez; his education. Don Alfonso discovers his wife, Julia, and 16-year old Juan; Don Juan is sent traveling to escape the scandal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Don Juan sets sail from Cadiz and is shipwrecked. He washes ashore on a Greek pirate island where he meets Haidée, the pirate's daughter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Lambro, Haidée's father, returns after being rumoured dead to find Don Juan in possession of his home and daughter.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Lambro captures Don Juan and sends him off to slavery in Turkey. Haidée dies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">The Sultan's latest wife, Gulbeyaz, sees Juan on the slave block and anonymously purchases him. Her servant, Baba, conducts Juan to her palace disguised as a girl. Juan spurn's Gulbeyaz' advances which are interrupted by the arrival of the Sultan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Juan, still disguised, is led back to the seraglio with the rest of the female slaves. His disguise is not discovered, but several of the harem vie for the opportunity to share their beds, and Dudù prevails. Gulbeyaz is informed and summons Juan and Dudù in a rage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">The action jumps to preparation for the Russian attack on the Turkish fortress of Ismail. Juan, disguised as an English mercenary, and his companions are brought to the Russian general, Suwarrow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Ismail is attacked and taken. Juan saves a young orphaned girl, Leila.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Juan comes to St Petersburgh with news of the victory, and attracts the attentions of Catherine the Great.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Catherine sends Don Juan ambassador to England. Leila accompanies him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Juan arrives in England.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Leila's education is entrusted to Mrs. Pinchbeck.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Lord Henry and Lady Adeline Amundeville invite Juan to their country seat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Juan rides to the hounds, and begins to spend time with Lady Adeline.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Lady Adeline tries to arrange a match for Juan, but does not approve when Aurora Raby catches his eye.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">Lord Henry holds court, and Juan meets a ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">Baily Copeland</span></div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-79067071090593715692011-01-01T11:42:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.750-07:00Biography<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lord Byron was born January 22<sup>nd</sup> 1788, to John Byron and Catherine Gordon. Byron's names changed throughout his life. He was born George Gordon Byron in London. Gordon was a baptismal name, his name was changed several times. At the age of 10, he inherited the English Barony of Byron, becoming Lord Byron. When Byron's mother-in-law, Judith Noel died in 1822, her will required that he change his surname to "Noel" in order to inherit half her estate. While not at school or college, Byron lived with his mother at Burgage Manor. Byron made friendships with Elizabeth Pigot and her brother, John, he staged two plays for the entertainment of the community with these two. Elizabeth Pigot encouraged him to write his first volumes of poetry, which were mostly poems from when he was 14. Byron's first loves included Mary Duff and Margaret Parker, his distant cousins, and Mary Chaworth, whom he met while at Harrow. Byron later wrote that his passion for Duff began when he was eight years old. Byron refused to return to Harrow in September 1803 because of his love for Chaworth. In Byron's later memoirs Mary Chaworth was the person who had adult sexual feeling with. Byron returned to Harrow in January 1804, where he had made emotional involvements with the local boys. The most successful of those was with the John FitzGibbon, who he had later run into in Italy. His later poems explain what he calls a "consciousness of sexual differences that may in the end make England untenable to him" Byron was in fact attracted to both sexes, While at Trinity, Byron met and formed a close friendship with the younger John Edleston. About his "protégé" he wrote, "He has been my almost constant associate since October, 1805, when I entered Trinity College” He later was more fond of married women, In 1812, Byron embarked on a well-publicized affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public. Byron broke up with Lamb so he would be able to date others such as Lady Oxford, but Lamb never entirely recovered, pursuing him even after he tired of her. She was emotionally disturbed, and lost so much weight that Byron cruelly commented to her mother-in-law, his friend Lady Melbourne, that he was "haunted by a skeleton.” Long after the break-up of Lady Caroline, he started to date her cousin Anne Isabella Milbanke, he had proposed several times with no luck, but eventually had gotten married at Seaham Hall, County Durham, on 2 January 1815. The marriage proved unhappy. He treated her poorly. They had a daughter. On 16 January 1816, Lady Byron left him, taking Ada with her. On 21 April, Byron signed the Deed of Separation, or a divorce, Lady Byron describes it as a very unhappy marriage. </div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-45279370698818246962011-01-01T11:12:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:20:14.067-07:00Blake's Prophesies Revealed (Community Blog)<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When looking through the blogs made by my English class at CAL I was really interested in a specific blog called <a href="http://www.tbfbb.blogspot.com/">Blake's Prophecies Revealed</a> that helped by further understand the prophecies of William Blake. The group that created this blog includes my classmates Edde Diaz, Makenna Childers, Alex Pinzone and Hanh Tran. This blog was put together in a very organized and neat manner that really fits together that made me want to continue looking through it. They have a brown color scheme that gives a scholar feeling to it which is really appropriate because they are teaching about William Blake. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The posts of this blog specify on Blake's prophecies which include the prophecies of America, Europe, and Asia. They go into depth to describe and explain the symbolism within each prophecy. Since the prophecies of Blake include a lot of symbolism throughout the poems he wrote it was hard for me to understand all of his deeper meanings. These posts are very helpful because they helped me get that deeper understanding of the prophecies that I needed in order to understand the prophecies he wrote. Each post also includes a copy of the original art that Blake made that go with each prophecy poem. The pictures are very interesting because they themselves include so much symbolism that goes with the poem. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">What really got my attention from this blog was an <a href="http://tbfbb.blogspot.com/2010/12/revolutionary-vison-of-william-blake-by.html">entry made by Edde Diaz</a> on an article by Thomas J. J. Altizer called “The Revolutionary Vision of William Blake”. This post describes Blake's opinion and beliefs of Christianity. Edde Diaz portrays the meaning of Christianity that Blake describes in his poems and life. This post is something that I really enjoyed reading because it shows different point of views and is very well explained.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I found this blog very helpful and full of interesting information that really does help further understand William Blake as a poet. This blog teaches on the prophecies of Blake and on his opinion of Christianity. The blog helps understand the symbolism in Blake’s work and can teach everyone at least a little about William Blake. I think that this blog has fulfilled its goal in sharing its knowledge of William Blake’s prophesies, and helps reveal a lot.</span></div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-55591812035383064042010-12-30T08:46:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:20:14.068-07:00Byronic Hero Influence<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Lord Byron’s creation of the Byronic hero has</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> been greatly used during the course of his life to ours. The influence this type of Romantic hero has had upon the world’s culture of literature, arts, and many other aspects of life has been so big that we may see a Byronic hero character and not even notice it as what it is. The Byronic hero has been a very popular and liked type of hero due to the fact that a Byronic hero is such an intriguing, dark, mysterious character. The hero type that Byron made has been seen in many different poems from him and other poets, some of which trace back to <i>Milton </i>and other poets from the Romantic time period to ours. In order to understand the Byronic hero and how it has influenced the world we must know the hero's characteristics, traits, and qualities that make him up. Here's the list of the qualities a Byronic hero shows, they are......</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxTqL73anUwVo9ESw4TkH0eMjolNJH_h8HYcZxiZYsuWXZ8jRgE0ZKcdRRhL4OkREX1fCAtekM3mdo0sKvTA5AnhMEHgbBjo10RDnI6RSQa9UdcZMBDHrif4CXS2Is44jfPjk2JzpW8m9/s1600/byronic+hero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxTqL73anUwVo9ESw4TkH0eMjolNJH_h8HYcZxiZYsuWXZ8jRgE0ZKcdRRhL4OkREX1fCAtekM3mdo0sKvTA5AnhMEHgbBjo10RDnI6RSQa9UdcZMBDHrif4CXS2Is44jfPjk2JzpW8m9/s320/byronic+hero.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Rebelling</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Romantic melancholy</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Guilt for secret sin</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Pride</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Alienation</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Defiance</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Revenge</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Remorse</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Restlessness</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Noble virtues such as….</span></li>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Honor</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Altruism</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Courage</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Pure love for a gentle woman</span></li>
</ul><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Distaste for society and social instruments</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Arrogant</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Cynical</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Mysterious</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">High level of intelligence and perception</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">An outcast, an exile, or an outlaw</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Cunning and ability to adapt</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Expressing a lack of respect for rank and privilege</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Having great talent</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Power of seduction and attraction</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Social and sexual dominance </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Self-destructive behavior</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sophisticated and well-educated</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Struggles with integrity</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Troubled past</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Unsuccessful in love, the beloved is usually dead</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Emotionally conflicted, bipolar tendencies, or moodiness</span></li>
</ul><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small;">The qualities gotten were specifically from these websites> <a href="http://www.theinfidels.org/zunb-lordbyron.htm">http://www.theinfidels.org/zunb-lordbyron.htm</a></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1148/ByronicTraits.pdf">http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1148/ByronicTraits.pdf</a> <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lord-byron">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lord-byron</a> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">A Byronic hero may possess some of these qualities, but not every character that possesses these qualities is a Byronic hero. With troubled pasts, scandalous lives, Romantic melancholy, being disliked, but popular at the same time the Byronic hero is in many ways just like Lord Byron himself.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> The first Byronic hero, Harold, appeared in Lord Byron's poem <i>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage </i>where Lord Byron begins to blend narration and digression to produce the type of descriptive-meditative poetry. Lord Byron uses this type of blend to write <i>Don Juan</i>, where another Byronic hero is introduced to the world of poetry. The Byronic hero is used in many poems by Byron including <i>The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, Lara,</i><i> </i>and even Lord Byron's closet play <i>Manfred.</i> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The influence of the Byronic hero has also been seen in the work of many poets and artist of the Romantic time period and Gothic writers of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. These poets and artist greatly admired the Byronic hero and the influence of this type of hero has spread like wild fire throughout the centuries. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">After some research I have found some Byronic heroes in our time that we may have never guessed would be. Some of the Byronic heroes of our time include the newspaper comic character Calvin from <i>Calvin and Hobbes. </i>I would have never guessed that Calvin would be a character that has been influenced by the Byronic hero, but he has. The Byronic hero has also influenced music, comic books, films, plays, literature, television shows, and the arts. One of the most popular type of characters in today's culture, vampires, are a perfect example of Byronic heroes because of their troubled past, their love for a specific person, their moodiness, and a few other trait that help them fit in to the category of Byronic hero influenced. All in all our world has been influenced by the Byronic hero in many ways. Our society and culture have embraced the Byronic heroes influence in so many aspects of our life that we do not know of, but the influence of the Byronic hero is there nonetheless.</span></div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-33327218161554383442010-12-29T17:08:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:20:14.062-07:00Obstacles in Byron's Life as a Poet<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Born January 22<sup>nd</sup> of 1788 in London and dead April 19<sup>th</sup> 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.</span><br />
<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-26719882078732284132010-12-29T16:36:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.723-07:00Darkness, in Present Day?After Reading <a href="http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/darkness.html"><span style="color: purple;">Darkness</span></a> 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?<br />
-Athena <br />
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( To read the poem click on "Darkness")Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-83561787485524900792010-12-17T15:47:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.753-07:00Bryon's family life.<span style="color: cyan;">Byron was born in 1788 with a clubfoot. He was the son of captain John Byron, and Catharine Gordon. He spent the beginning of his life in Aberdeen with his mother. He attended school up until he was ten years old when he inherited the title and property of his great uncle in 1798. Then he went off to Dulwich, Harrow, and Cambridge. Where he built up a lot of debt. While he was at college he met his half sister, Augusta Leigh. They were believed to be having a little more then a brother and sister relationship with each other, more along the lines of a lover rather than family member. In 1807 Byron’s first collection of poetry came out “Hours Of Idleness”, it ended up getting bad reviews. In 1808 he came out with “English Bards and Scotch Reviewersin”, which ended up with a little success. The next year Byron became a lord and began to take his grand tour, visiting Spain, Malta, Albania, Greece and the Aegean. It seemed that his traveling gave him inspiration because it’s when he traveled he came out with some amazing poetry. In 1812, he published the first two cantos of “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” he became very adored in London. In 1814, Byron’s “The Corsiar” sold 10,000 copies on the very first day it was published. Later he married a woman named Anne Isabella Milbanke in 1815. They had a daughter named Ada the same year. A year later Byron and Milbanke separated. When rumors started going around about his incest and his debt he decided to leave England for good and never return. He went and lived with Percy Bysshy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Claire Clairmont who ended becoming his mistress. While living there he wrote two cantos of childe Harold and the “Prisoner of Chillon” By the end of summer Byron decided he wanted to finish his travels. He spent two years in Italy. He wrote a poem called “Lament of Tasso” where it was inspired by a place he visited called in Rome. He also wrote his masterpiece of “Don Juan” while in Italy.</span><br />
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">When Byron died from a horrible fever he caught. His body was returned to England and was placed in the family vault at Hucknall Torkard.</span></div>Turner's Fab Fourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01669439665551638430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030887283815599115.post-37635830830064026272010-11-24T15:49:00.000-08:002012-10-24T19:19:27.727-07:00Lord George Gordon Byron's Love life<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: cyan;">So when I began to do research on Byron's first love I found that he had three. There names were, Mary Duff and Margaret Parker who happened to be his distant cousins. The third was Mary Chaworth who he met when he was attending Harrow. Byron wrote later that his passion for Duff started when he wasn’t even eight yet. He refused to go back to Harrow in September 1803 because Chaworth, he loved her but his mother wrote him saying this:<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> "He has no indisposition that I know of but love, desperate love, the worst of all maladies in my opinion. In short, the boy is distractedly in love with Miss Chaworth." Later in Byron’s memoirs he describes Mary Chawroth as “the first object of his adult sexual feelings.” Byron ended up going back to Harrow in January, 1804 and realised he had emotinal involvments with Harrow boys. He says in his memoirs '</span>My School friendships were with me passions (for I was always violent)” he really focuses on a young man named John FitzGibbon, who he later meets unexpectedly when in Italy. He wrote a poem about his friendships at Harrow called “Childish Recollections”. Byron later went to Trinity where he met a man names John Edleston. He described him in his memoirs: <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">"He has been my almost constant associate since October, 1805, when I entered Trinity College. His voice first attracted my attention, his countenance fixed it, and his manners attached me to him for ever." In later years Byron described his and Edleston’s relationship as “Violent but pure love and passion” Following up on some more research on this I found that Byron has a few more homosexual partners, At Cambridge he met John Cam Hobhouse and at King’s college a man named Francis Hodgson, who he kept in touch with untill the end of his life. He had an affair with a married women named Lady Caroline Lamb, from my research it was aware that it wasn’t well kept. There relationship was pretty publisized. It shocked the British public but Byron broke it off. Moving quickly on to his next affair such as Jane Elizebeth Scott AKA Lady Oxford. But Lady Caroline Lamb was still heartbroken from Byron and persuied him. He said later to her mother-in-law that he felt as if he were being chase by a skeloton because she was so destraught that she stopped eating. He had affairs with yet another cousin Augusta Leigh. And Anne Isabella Millbanke whome he had a daughter with.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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