This document contains detailed analysis, context and in-depth literary conventions for the Poetry section of the Edexcel A-Level English Literature course. Further support is given to students with the inclusion of quotation banks providing students with the foundations to be successful in essay q...
● Endured a chaotic childhood in Aberdeen brought up by his schizophrenic
mother and an abusive nurse
● Had a constant need to be loved which was expressed through many affairs
both men and women
● Educated at Cambridge where he experienced affairs with both sexes
● While at trinity college he experimented with love, discovered politics and fell
into debt
● Byron’s personal life was often the subject of gossip and scandal, and his
sexual relationships were considered unconventional for the time
● Byron left England and took a tour of Europe falling in love with Greece
● The Byronic hero is arrogant, intelligent, educated outcast who somehow
balance their cynicism and self-destruction tendencies with a mysterious
magnetism and attraction
● In 1803 at the age of 15 he fell madly in love with his cousin, Mary Chaworth,
who did not return his feelings.
● In 1812, Byron embarked on a affair with the passionate, eccentric – and
married – Lady Caroline Lamb. The scandal shocked the British public.
● Byron married Annabella Milbanke, with whom he had a daughter Augusta
Ada. Because of Byron’s many affairs, the rumours of his bisexuality and the
scandal surrounding his relationship with Augusta, the couple separated
shortly after the birth of their child.
● By now Byron’s illegitimate daughter Allegra had arrived in Italy, sent by her
mother Claire to be with her father. Byron sent her away to be educated at a
convent near Ravenna, where she died in April 1822. Later that same year
Byron also lost his friend Shelley who died when his boat, went down at sea.
● As he produces his poetry from 1812 to 1824, Byron comes to believe that
stable, objective knowledge or truth does not exist; he progressively arrives at
the conclusion that all so-called knowledge is in fact manufactured, subjective
belief
● Byron borrows two conclusions: "the mind plays a role in producing the 'Ideas'
it holds," and "because the mind is capable of being highly changeable, so,
perhaps, is the knowledge it produces".
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