George gordon byron's Writing Characteristics

In his short life, he left many brilliant poems to the world, among which the most famous are the magnificent long lyric narrative poems Childe Harold's Travels and Don Juan. In these brilliant works, which are praised as "lyric epics" by the world, Byron, a poet, used the creative technique of positive romanticism to integrate his personal experience of traveling in European countries into his works, and with a broad vision and profound brushwork, he showed a vast and magnificent picture of the times, expressing his lofty poet feelings and unyielding struggle vows. Byron's "lyric epic" presents a moving and beautiful scenery with the poet's wandering. "The exotic scenery from the Mediterranean to the Aegean Sea is unobstructed, from the rolling mountains of Portugal and the spectacular bullring of Spain to the solemn monuments of Greece and Rome and the mountains of Albania. There are not only the beautiful scenery along the Rhine, but also the twilight on the lake Geneva, St. Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican and the ancient battlefield in Waterloo. Byron first devoted his poet's unparalleled enthusiasm to describing the scenery of these countries, with the aim of inspiring the patriotic enthusiasm of the people in these countries and encouraging them to fight for the independence and liberation of the motherland. Byron deeply praised the sun, moon, oceans and mountains, and enthusiastically praised mythical heroes, ancient heroes, historical sites and cultural treasures, all in order to arouse people's will to resist and determination to struggle. Byron's enthusiasm is various, and Byron's works are sympathetic: he frequently sighs for the Spanish people enslaved and oppressed by the royal courts and ruling classes in Britain, Spain and Portugal. There are also lamentations in his works: he deeply mourned the tragic fate of the Greek people ravaged by Turkey's iron hoof. There are also praises in his works: sincere praise for rare treasures in ancient art, such as Apollo statues, laocoon sculptures, dying Gaul statues, Boccaccio and other relics of Renaissance masters. His works are even bolder: remembering Italy's past glory and inspiring Italian patriots to stand up and overthrow the tyranny of foreign invaders with high battle songs. The poet's enthusiasm is ubiquitous and unstoppable in his works, such as his lofty praise for the vastness of the ocean:

Pentium, your unfathomable indigo ocean!

Thousands of ships rushed at you, leaving no trace.

Another example is his poetic and touching description of the moon:

The moon rises; Oh, what a wonderful night!

The flowing moonlight pours on the waves;

Maybe girls are turned upside down by teenagers' love words,

As for us, let's wait until we get ashore to taste the taste!

In Byron's works, this romantic poet is always full of unrestrained enthusiasm. Although the tone of Byron's poems is sometimes high-spirited and sometimes cynical, whether full of pessimism or fighting pride, his poems are "always saturated with lyrical atmosphere and deep love and hate." Not only that, the poet also uses a lot of artistic techniques of narration and discussion in his poems, combined with the description of the scenery, directly expresses his thoughts from touching the scene and tells his incisive views on philosophy, society, politics, history, religion and art everywhere. Therefore, if Byron's lyric narrative poetry is outstanding, it is not only because of its broad vision and wonderful writing style, but also because of its rich and extensive humanistic knowledge connotation. Therefore, Byron's poems are well-deserved to be praised as "lyric epic" by the world.

Byron is a passionate poet, and his enthusiasm is mainly manifested in his dissatisfaction and resistance to reality. Faced with the injustice of the ruling class and the slavery and oppression of the working class, Byron put forward strong resistance and bitter irony in many poems, but Byron not only satirized the darkness of society, but also devoted his enthusiasm to the battle cry. He used all his arms to shout in a famous battle poem of Lutheranism:

When we finish knitting our own clothes,

When we use swords instead of looms,

We're going to put the cloth

The tyrant who threw it at your feet

We'll dye it with his blood.

As a romantic poet, Byron also integrated great enthusiasm into the perfect combination of lyricism and narrative skills, showing the distinctive artistic characteristics of his poems and the special artistic charm of romantic new poems. The "lyric epic" shows a magnificent and shocking picture of the times: Spain is filled with the smoke of Napoleon's war of aggression, Italy is trembling under the iron hoof of Austria, and Greece is groaning under the slavery of Turkey. In The Trend of Thought, Byron sadly described the sufferings and sorrows of the oppressed people and mercilessly exposed the greed and cruelty of the oppressors and aggressors. He paid tribute to the battlefield of Waterloo and commented on Napoleon's merits and demerits. He sang proudly in the beautiful lake Geneva, amid the lakes and mountains, praising Rousseau, Voltaire and other enlighteners' lofty ideals of freedom and equality. In Greece, when the poet was in the ancient battlefield of Yu Guangrong, he couldn't help feeling strong and passionate. He expressed deep sympathy for the fate of the Greek people who were being oppressed by foreign countries, and at the same time expressed dissatisfaction and resentment that they had forgotten the brilliant achievements of their ancient ancestors. He wants to wake people up with loud battle songs and change their careless and negative attitude towards the fate of the motherland. In Byron's oriental narrative poems, there are a group of chivalrous tough guys. They are pirates, pagans and exiles. Most of them are arrogant, lonely and stubborn rebels. They are incompatible with the evil society, fighting against fate alone and pursuing freedom always end in failure. Byron showed his uncompromising resistance to society through their struggle, and also reflected his own depression, loneliness and hesitation. These are all famous Byronic heroes in the history of literature. Because these images have the author's own thoughts and personality characteristics, they are called "Byronic heroes".

"Byronic hero" refers to a kind of characters in Byron's works of19th century English romantic poet. They are arrogant and stubborn, dissatisfied with reality, demanding to rise up and resist, and their character is rebellious; But at the same time, it seems melancholy, lonely, pessimistic, divorced from the masses, going its own way, and never finding the right way out. For example, Harold, the son of Childe Haller's Travels, Conrad, the hero of The Pirate Ship (18 14), Manfred, the hero of the philosophical drama, and so on.

The thoughts and personalities of these characters are contradictory: on the one hand, they love life, pursue happiness, have fiery passion, strong love and extraordinary personality; Dare to despise the system, and social evil forces vowed to revenge, therefore, they are rebels and avengers of evil society. On the other hand, they are arrogant and independent, secretive and extreme. Their ideological basis is individualism and liberalism. They separated themselves from the masses in the struggle and had no clear goal, so they all ended in failure.

"Byronic hero" is the product of the opposition between individual and society. Belinsky, a Russian literary critic, and Pushkin, a poet, have both pointed out that "Byronic heroes" have ideological weaknesses of individualism and liberalism. Byronic heroes are tragic and arrogant rebels. They all have extraordinary talents and strength, but they can't display them in a corrupt society. They feel pain for their inaction and despair for their emotional waste.

Byronic hero is also an artistic reflection of the author's ideological characteristics and weaknesses. This kind of characters appeared in Byron's works one after another, which was of progressive significance to the violent impact of British feudal order and bourgeois society at that time. However, their individualism, anarchism and pessimism often bring negative effects to readers. Russian literary critic belinsky and poet Pushkin both pointed out the ideological weakness and harmfulness of "Byronic hero".

Byron created a group of "Byronic heroes" in his poems. They are cold, fanatical and romantic, but full of rebellious spirit. Their hearts are full of loneliness and depression, but they despise small groups. Childe Harold is the first Byronic hero in Byron's poems. The most representative, combative and brilliant work in Byron's poetry is his long poem Don Juan, which describes the romantic stories of Don Juan, the son of a Spanish nobleman, such as travel, love and adventure, exposes the dark, ugly and hypocritical side of society and plays the battle song for freedom, happiness and liberation.