He is not only a great poet, but also a fighter who struggled for his ideals all his life. He actively and bravely participated in the revolution-participated in the Greek national liberation movement and became one of the leaders.
The life of the character
George gordon byron:1788 65438+1was born in a rented humble house in London on October 22nd. Both parents come from declining aristocratic families. He was born lame and is very sensitive to it. At the age of ten, the hereditary title and property of the Byron family (Newstad Abbey is its residence) fell into his hands and became Byron VI. 180 1 year, in order to match Byron's aristocratic status and position, the family decided to send him to the famous Harrow College. This school, founded by John Lynn in 157 1, has cultivated many famous figures in British history, among which Prime Minister Churchill, who worshipped Byron, graduated from this school.
After graduating from Harrow College, he studied literature and history at Cambridge University on 1805- 1808. He is not a diligent student and seldom attends classes. But he widely read literature, philosophy and history works in Europe and Britain, and also engaged in shooting, gambling, drinking, hunting, swimming, boxing and other activities. 1March, 809, entered the House of Lords as a hereditary aristocrat. He attended the House of Lords and delivered some speeches, but these speeches clearly expressed Byron's progressive position of liberalism.
After graduating from Cambridge University, he was a member of the House of Lords. When I was a student, I was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment. 1809-1811year, he traveled to Spain, Greece, Turkey and other countries, and was inspired by the anti-aggression and anti-oppression struggles of people from all over the world, and created the Travels of Childe Harold (1809-650). His masterpieces include Childe Haller's Travels and Don Juan (18 18- 1823). In his poems, he created many "Byronic heroes". Byron was not only a great poet, but also a fighter who struggled for his ideals all his life. He actively and bravely joined the revolution, participated in the Greek national liberation movement and became one of the leaders.
From1809-1811,Byron traveled abroad to the East in order to "meet people, not just read about them in books", and also to sweep away the harmful consequences of an islander staying at home with narrow prejudice. 1June 26th, 809, left England for the East (South Europe and West Asia). In the next six months, I will go to Lisbon, Portugal by boat. Riding to Seville and Cadiz in southern Spain, then to Albania via Sardinia, Sicily and malta island, where he met with the ruler Alipasha; 65438+ arrived in the famous Greek city of Athens on February 25th. Byron traveled abroad this time, enjoying the natural scenery of various places, observing the social life and political system of various countries, and contacting people from all walks of life. He saw with his own eyes the Spanish guerrillas who had dealt a heavy blow to the French invaders and the Greek people who had accumulated their strength to prepare for the liberation struggle under the ravages of Turkish soldiers. This trip also aroused his strong interest in the cultures of various ethnic groups in southern Europe. All these have had a great influence on his thought and creation. I started writing Childe Harold's travels in Albania. [2] The first and second chapters of Childe Haller's Travels were published in February 18 12, which caused a sensation in the literary world and made Byron a star in London society. However, this did not make him compromise with the British aristocratic bourgeoisie. He knew the stubbornness, hypocrisy, evil and prejudice of this society and its ruling class from an early age, and his poems have been devoted to all these.
1811-1816, Byron has been living in a constant emotional vortex. In his popular social life, there is a lot of love to take part in accidental amusement, and the affair of a young aristocratic poet is naturally more talked about. Byron proposed to Miss Anna milbank on 18 13 and married her on1815. This is the biggest mistake Byron made in his life. Mrs. Byron is a narrow-minded person, deeply bound by the hypocrisy of her own class, and can't understand Byron's career and views at all. One year after his marriage, he returned home with his daughter, who had just been born for more than a month, and refused to live with Byron, thus causing rumors. The British ruling class took this opportunity to take the craziest revenge on its traitor Byron in an attempt to destroy this poet who dared to be his enemy. The painful feelings of this period also made him write poems like Prometheus, expressing his determination to resist the oppressors after all. 18 16, Byron lived in Switzerland and met another exiled poet Shelley in Geneva. Their hatred for the British rulers and their love for poetry made them close friends.
While living abroad, Byron wrote Childe Harold's Travels (18 16-1817) and the story poem Priscillo Faucheron (18/kloc-0). Don Juan, the representative work, is Byron's most important group of poems, which is semi-poetic, semi-harmonious, semi-narrative and semi-argumentative, with realistic content, strange, relaxed and ironic style. After the first and second chapters were published anonymously, they immediately caused great repercussions. British newspapers defending bourgeois decency rose up and attacked it, accusing it of attacking religion and morality, which was "a mockery of decency, good feelings and the code of conduct necessary for maintaining society" and "disgusting to every normal mind", and so on.
Unfortunately, 1824, he got caught in the rain, caught a cold and couldn't get sick. He died on April 65438, 2009. His death made the Greek people extremely sad. Greece declared Byron's death a state funeral and mourned for three days. On June 29th, the coffin arrived in London.
Personality influence
George gordon byron is recognized as the main representative of romantic literature in the19th century. He wrote many poems in his life. He advocates enthusiasm and imagination. His poems are praised as "lyric epics" by the world, and the rebels with the author's own ideological characteristics are called "Byronic heroes". Have a far-reaching impact on future generations.