Community Blog Assignment

The blog “ The Life of John Keats: A Romantic Poet” By Darian Washington, , , , 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.  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.  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.  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.

She Walks In Beauty

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY

by: George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824)

SHE walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellow'd to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

 

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impair'd the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

 

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent!

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. 

Your Future (Prose Poem)

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.

Biography

Lord Byron was born January 22^nd 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.