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A 3 page essay that analyzes Byron's "Stanzas To a Lady Leaving England" as an example of romantic poetry. The writer discusses how some critics have dismissed Byron as a romantic and presents opposing views. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of M.H. Abrams that Byron never wrote in this idiom. In recent decades other critics have come to far different conclusions concerning Byron and romanticism. As this examination of
Byrons "Stanzas To a Lady Leaving England" will illustrate, Lord Byron, George Gordon did, indeed, write in the romantic idiom, but in a style that was different from his
fellow romantics, such as Coleridge or Wordsworth. Rather than write in the confessional-style favored by Wordsworth, Byrons lyric were influenced more by French confessional poets, such as Rousseau (Soderholm
739). However, it is also true that romanticism is a term that defies being easily defined. In general it was a perspective that glorified the commonplace and took
a saw nature as a source of spiritual inspiration. It was an age of an age that promised great things via spreading influence of free enterprise and revolutionary hope, an
age that valued radical individualism. Jane Stabler reports that critics such as Jerome McGann have been reconsidering Bryons place among romantic poets (19). McGanns revisionary account of romanticism focuses
on the "idea of the symbolic" (Stabler 19). This is a feature that can readily be seen in Bryons "To a Lady." The poem begins "Tis done -- and
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" (lines 1-4). These nautical terms paint a vibrant
picture of the sea as a ship sets sail. The "snowy" sail conjures images of winter, in a manner that underscores the chilliness of the ocean breeze. The narrator then
explains, "And I must this land be gone, because I cannot love but one" (lines 5-6). As this indicates, not only is the climate chilly on the departing ship, but
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