Byron

[hardblue]

Byron was not born into his title, but inherited it. It seems a fortuitous thing that this should have happened in time for his university education, but in this poem, we get this sense of regret for his younger, simpler days.

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careless child

[pigshitpoet]

what?! did he die young? LGGB -- (22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824) like 2 years after shelley who was get younger by 4 years

RE: careless child

[hardblue]

It's not about his dying young so much, I think, as it is about his belief that the best of his life ended early. To a romantic, nothing can be as grand as yesteryear.

I suppose Byron was a gentler soul than the nihilist Rimbaud.

RE: life lived fully ending early

[pigshitpoet]

it seems most romantics were that way, longing for yesteryear, and after a psychological shift to realism happened, as poets spoke more of their own experience in real rhyme. matthew arnold for instance

whereas would you say that rimbaud "lived for today" ? he was what i call a symbolist, all about dreams. in painting i would liken him to odilon redon. and in photography steichen or steiglitz.

the romantics were idealists all about longing and unrequited love, mystery and dreams..

i like what rimbaud's quote said about simply channeling and not being unable to explain or not needing to justify his imagery to the reader. i think samuel taylor coleridge was a bit like this.. kubla khan for instance

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