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What are your thoughts on this poem, /lit/?

She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

Yesterday's poem >>20304941

>> No.20310091
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>George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), simply known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and peer. One of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, Byron is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. He remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.
>He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa. During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted after the First and Second Siege of Missolonghi.
>His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, is regarded as a founding figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Byron's extramarital children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh, daughter of his half-sister Augusta Leigh.

>> No.20310106

just marathoned this

>> No.20310151

>>20310091
People know who Byron was

>> No.20310210

audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVHmkQbIDE

>> No.20310391

>>20310151
I didn't know he fathered Ada Lovelace desu. I remember hearing about her from some feminism crap

>> No.20310475

>>20310391
Yeah the feminists really overplay Lovelace's contributions.

Lord Byron was quite the character.

>> No.20311212

>>20310210
>music

>> No.20311290

>>20311212
>yet another low quality post

>> No.20311883

It's a well done poem from a technical standpoint, but it strikes me as very "safe" in terms of both structure and content. "Dark hair and fair skin equals pretty." It's schoolboy stuff, imo, neither very Romantic nor terribly Byronic.

>> No.20313277

>>20310210
Garbage.

https://youtu.be/8PLaNdjAjGU

>> No.20313663

>>20310089
>>20311883
Agree. But it is the nicest you can do such a naive poem. The poem increases at least a little bit in sophistication with constant references to a kind of golden mean she achieves, amplified by the sounds. “Had half impaired the nameless grace”—so breathy, light—“waves in every raven tress”—just say that aloud, how well it flows. Then we move from outward beauty to an image of inward purity. It’s kind of an idealistic poem, reflecting on an ideal world, where the beauty of our world is present alongside inner virtue. The speaker is so caught up in that image that he seems to revert to the kind of schoolyard love. I also think it reflects an experience most men will have, probably in or before adolescence. And in that moment, seeing her walk down, things just seem to make sense.
If I remember correctly Byron wrote this based off a real experience and presented it at the next party to the girl. Pretty ballsy imo