George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Lecture outline >General survey: Byron's main works >Poem appreciation: The Isles of Greece Analysis: Byronic hero > Poem Appreciation: She Walks in Beauty Byron's personal life and his literary career >Byrons position in Romanticism
Lecture Outline ►General survey: Byron’s main works ►Poem appreciation: The Isles of Greece ►Analysis: Byronic hero ►Poem Appreciation: She Walks in Beauty ►Byron’s personal life and his literary career ►Byron’s position in Romanticism
Byrons main works b Childe harold 's Pilgrimage(1809) P Oriented Tales (oriental settings and heroic heroes) > Don Juan----his masterpiece click to LOOK INSIDE! ) JUAN I awoke one morning to find myself famous Don juan
Byron’s main works ►Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1809) ►Oriented Tales (oriental settings and heroic heroes) ►Don Juan----his masterpiece I awoke one morning to find myself famous Don Juan
Don Juan 1)alono hut great enjc: "epic satire "a satire on al nt state 2)q ation n over a omen 3) mora urage Do知 g A Chess 4)presents a panoramic view of different types of society
Don Juan 1) a long but great epic: “epic satire” , “a satire on abuses of the present state of society”. 2) original characterization: a Spanish youth of noble birth; a great lover and seducer of women. 3) invests in Juan the moral positives like courage, generosity and frankness. (from immoral to moral) 4) presents a panoramic view of different types of society
Poem Appreciation e The isles of greece
Poem Appreciation ►The Isles of Greece
The isles of greece s The isles of greece the isles of greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung > Where grew the arts of war and peace, >Where Delos rose, and phoebus sprung Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set (Sappho Greek lyric poet Delos: a name of island; Phoebus: Appollo
The Isles of Greece ► The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! ► Where burning Sappho loved and sung, ► Where grew the arts of war and peace, ► Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! ► Eternal summer gilds them yet, ► But all, except their sun, is set. (Sappho: Greek lyric poet Delos: a name of island; Phoebus: Appollo)
Question 1 What does Greece mean to Europeans? Greek civilization is the fountainhead of the European culture HIT
Question 1 What does Greece mean to Europeans? Greek civilization is the fountainhead of the European culture
Question 2 Allusions are frequently used in this poem. Try to interpret the function of allusions in the stanza burning Sappho the arts of war and peace Phoebus to set a sharp contrast between the past and the present of Greece but all, except the sun, is set
Question 2 ►Allusions are frequently used in this poem. Try to interpret the function of allusions in the stanza. burning Sappho the arts of war and peace Phoebus to set a sharp contrast between the past and the present of Greece. “but all, except the sun, is set
s The scian and the tejan muse The hero's harp the lover's lute, >Have found the fame your shores refuse > Their place of birth alone is mute >To sounds which echo further west e Than your sires islands of the blest (Scian: of Scio, birthplace of Homer; Teian of Teos, birthplace of anacreon)
2 ►The Scian and the Teian muse, ►The hero's harp, the lover's lute, ►Have found the fame your shores refuse; ►Their place of birth alone is mute ►To sounds which echo further west ►Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest.“ (Scian: of Scio, birthplace of Homer; Teian: of Teos, birthplace of Anacreon)
Analysis of the stanza 2 >allusion the scian and the tejan muse synecdoche: The hero's harp the lover's lute glorious in the past while refusing the fame and being mute to the sounds at present
Analysis of the stanza 2 ►allusion: The Scian and the Teian muse ►synecdoche: The hero's harp, the lover's lute ►glorious in the past while refusing the fame and being mute to the sounds at present