Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 332 - Darkness
The Vampyre and Frankenstein are two liteary works that came out of the literary competition at the Villa Diadati - but another lesser known work is Lord George Gordon Byron’s Darkness. There is a lot of information in this episode - after an introduction, I am going to analyze the poem line by line - and then when you hopefully have more of an idea of what is about, I will read the entire poem without interruption.
Now Lord Byron's poem "Darkness" is a powerful and even apocalyptic vision of a world devoid of light, life, and hope. Written in 1816, it reflects the anxieties of its time, particularly the environmental and social upheavals caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, which led to the "Year Without a Summer." This analysis will explore the poem's background and content, including a line-by-line breakdown. And let me apologize in advance, the subject matter of Darkness is very powerful, but can come across as a complete downer.
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