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Analysis. Byron wrote “Darkness” in July-August 1816. The poem is at least partly influenced by the mass hysteria of the time brought about by an Italian astronomer’s prediction that the sun would burn itself out on July 18th, thus destroying the world.
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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...
Lines 1-5
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...
Lines 6-13
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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What kind of personality is given to the sun in this comparison? Give three quotes from the poem to support your answer.
The bolded lines in the poem rhyme using. internal rhyme. Read the following lines from "Slow Through the Dark" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and answer the question that follows. Heed not the darkness round you, dull and deep;
In this narrative poem, a speaker dreams of a future in which the sun burns out and the whole world is left in darkness. Panicking, the survivors of this catastrophe gradually destroy all remaining life in their efforts to survive.
‘Darkness’ was inspired by a curious incident: the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which drastically altered the weather conditions across the world and led to 1816 being branded ‘the Year without a Summer’.
Sep 4, 2021 · Below, you can find a complete poem and an analysis of “Darkness” by Lord Byron, including notes that are tailored towards A-Level students...
