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From “Don Juan” By: Lord Byron

From “Don Juan” By: Lord Byron.

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From “Don Juan” By: Lord Byron

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  1. From “Don Juan” By: Lord Byron Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was as famous in his lifetime for his personality cult as for his poetry. He created the concept of the 'Byronic hero' - a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable event in his past. Byron's influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries.

  2. Plot • From Don Juan perspective women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel.

  3. Thesis Statement • Lord Byron has a consisted rhyme scheme in “Don Juan” . He used, I have squandered my whole summer whit‘lt was May, to put m in the mind of a hot sunny day.

  4. Theme and Tone • The theme is, Don Juan Is heartbroken because his wife committed adultery. • He used word like, heartbroken, unpleasant, retort, and widow to let me know he was hurt and cheated on. He also use lines such as, ambition was my idol, which was broken before the shrines of sorrow and of Pleasure. He is basically saying he was working so hard towards his marriege till before she left him.

  5. Figurative Language and Poetic Devices • My days love are over, me no more • I have squandered my whole summer whilt‘t was May.

  6. Poem Interpretation • The poem inform me on how love can lead the wrong way even to death. It helped me to be cautious on who I trust with marriage. He helped me to see that when he says… • My days love are over, me no more. the charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow can make the fool of which they made before.

  7. Conclusion The words he used such as …. • (Cuckold-Widow ) Let me know his wife cheated on him. Or committed adultery. • He was half playful and mocking and half- serious tone at the beginning when he says ( But now at thirty years my hair is gray, (I wonder what it will be like at forty?, I thought of a peruke the other day).

  8. Works Cited • http://www.definitions.net/ • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016804/plotsummary • http://www.google.com

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