During Byron's travel in Europe, the most important achievement was the completion of the first and second chapters of the long poem Childe Hallor (the third and fourth chapters were completed in 18 16 and 18 18 respectively). The first chapter was written in Albania from 65438 to 0809, and the second chapter was completed in Ismail in March of the following year. 18 12 published a long poem in March, which caused a sensation in the literary world and swept the country. Childe Haller's Travels is Byron's early masterpiece. Through the images of Haller and the lyric hero, the author describes his experiences and impressions after traveling and living in European countries. In the first two chapters, Byron described the social features of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Albania during the Napoleonic Wars, condemned autocratic rule, and supported the people of all countries in their struggle for freedom. The last two chapters praise the magnificence of European mountains and rivers, cherish the memory of great figures in history and praise European art.
Hallor's son in the poem is a lonely, frustrated and sentimental young aristocrat, who is tired of the life of the upper class and has a melancholy personality. His heart is cold and his eyes are cold. This image also reflects some thoughts and emotions of the author himself. The lyric hero is an active observer and critic of life. He loves freedom, praises revolution, is full of energy and strong feelings, which embodies the positive side of Byron's thought. Long poems are rich in content and famous for their strong romantic lyricism.
Since then, Byron has written six narrative poems, including The Pagan, The Bride of Abitus and The Pirate (18 14), which are collectively called "Oriental Narrative Poems". The works are set in Eastern Europe and West Asia, full of exotic romance. In the poem, a series of independent, arrogant and rebellious heroic images are also created. They are pirates, pagans, rebels, homeless people, etc. They all have outstanding talents, strong will and rebellious enthusiasm, and dare to despise traditional order and tyranny, but their resistance is always combined with loneliness and melancholy, even proud of independence and solitude, and finally ends in tragedy. The most typical image is Conrad in One Piece. This image is called "Byronic hero".
18 16 In the summer, Byron's wife asked for separation and was slandered and attacked by the upper class. Byron moved to Switzerland angrily. Manfred (18 17), a poetic drama written in this period, actually reflects the poet's anguish. A mysterious figure living in the depths of the Alps in the poem committed a great moral crime, which led to the death of his favorite person. Now he just wants to die as soon as possible. The hero is disappointed with the reality after the Great Revolution, but he is unwilling to go to the people, expressing the loneliness and despair of the intellectuals who refused to compromise with the reality after the French Revolution. In essence, he is also a Byronic hero. In addition to a few characters, there are elves and gods of fate who represent various forces of nature. They are romantic and mysterious. The long poem Prisoner of Si Long tells the story of Bonnie Wade, a pacifist and free thinker, who was imprisoned in Silongbao for six years in the 6th century. Unlike "Byronic hero", Bonnie Wade opposed tyranny and the fate of the people, and won the support and support of the people. Poetry praises the hero's indomitable spirit and attacks the cruelty of tyranny.
Byron struggled for the ideals of democracy, freedom and national liberation all his life and worked hard to create them. His works are of great historical significance and artistic value. His unfinished novel Don Juan is a magnificent narrative poem with broad artistic conception, superb views and outstanding art, which is rare in the history of British and even European literature.
Byron began to write poems when he was a student. After the publication of his second book of poetry, The Moment of Leisure (1807), it was attacked by Edinburgh Review. The poet replied with the poem "English Poets and Scottish Critics" (1809), which showed his outstanding talent and satirical edge for the first time. Childe Harold's Travels (chapter 1 2) published by 18 12 is his famous work. 18 16, Byron was rejected by the upper class because of his private life, and moved to Italy in a rage. In Italy, he wrote the third and fourth chapters of Childe Harold's Travels (18 16, 18 18). This lyric narrative poem and the unfinished masterpiece Don Juan are his most famous masterpieces.
Byron also wrote a series of narrative poems, such as Pagan (18 13), Pirates (18 14) and Manfred (18 17).
At the beginning of 1823, the anti-soil struggle in Greece rose. Byron put down Don Juan, which he was writing, and resolutely went to Greece to participate in the armed struggle of the Greek people for freedom and independence. April 1824, died in the Greek army. His poems have great influence in Europe and China.