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Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour. They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks. Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black. The brows of men by the despairing light. Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits. The flashes fell upon them; some lay down. And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest.
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This piece begins with a description of the sun, stars, and moon being extinguished and the earth being left to stumble through space without direction. All of the people of the earth have been doomed to live in darkness.They burn everything around them, from palaces to huts and eventually religious materials. They are desperate for any kind of lig...
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Byron begins this piece with a statement that must remain in the mind of the reader throughout the entirety of the poem. His speaker states that he has “…had a dream” (1)that was not entirely a dream. The dream can either be brushed off as only that, or considered as a premonition due to the fact that it has a poignant message to share about the state of the human race. The dream of the speaker revolves around one main concept, “darkness.” In the dream, (that takes on strong religious, end of...
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The darknessof this night is not broken by the coming of “Morn” (6) but continues onward endlessly. The day does not bring with it light, as the sun, too, has been put out. Men are said to have forgotten “…their passions in the dread / Of this their desolation.”There is nothing to live aside from the dread of the darkness, all passion for worldly pursuits is lost. All of the hearts of the world were “chill’d”or frozen (in this contextmeaning both stuck and cold) “into a selfish prayer for lig...
Lines 14-21
While the homes of humankind are burning, the men “were gather’d round their blazing homes” to finally look one another in the face. It appears that this is the first time since the darknesscame that there has been enough light to truly see one another again. A few lines are taken at this point to draw attention, figuratively, to those that dwell “within the eye / Of the volcanoes” and can see by the light of the magma inside. Byron could have added this line solely as a way of emphasizing th...
Lord Byron was born in 1788 in London. He gained his title at the age of ten and became, Baron Byron of Rochdale. As a child he was abandoned and shunned by his parents due to the club foot he was born with, something he would be consistently embarrassed of throughout his life. He would go on to study at Aberdeen Grammar School and then Trinity Col...
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Jul 5, 2015 · And They Were Enemies: Directed by Brian Kirk. With Reeve Carney, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Rory Kinnear. Vanessa must rely on her strength in order to defeat the demon.
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Berean Standard Bible. The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated. King James Bible.
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Jul 6, 2015 · Because this sophomore season has been so strong, “And They Were Enemies” comes as something of letdown—not so much for the downbeat second half (it’s not like I was expecting a parade and ...
