There is no exact definition of "romanticism". However, there are a range of themes, such as imagination and transcendence, the worship of nature, the mysterious and sublime, and the figure of the poet as an important individual frequently occur in the literature of tagged romantic writers. It is believed generally cover the romantic era in poetry 1780 in 1830. Byron was born in 1788 and is considered as a poet of the romantic period. Most critics consider Don Juan's masterpiece. This paper analyzes a fragment of the first canto.
Such a serious concept as romanticism can never really be clearly defined, but we can come closer to understanding some of its features by examining the structure, themes and language used in the poems of the time.
Don Juan is a simulated unfinished poem of epic proportions. Formative years of the protagonist are presented in the first canto, recounts the third person by a cynically courteous narrator who adopts a detached and conversational tone, so soak adventures of Juan wracked wryly.
A sense of disillusionment is typical of the employed narrative voice. The language is erudite and witty, with many classical allusions-"any person may be partial / all the epigrams of martial nausea?" appearing at the spill set forth in the mouth of the show-business even jaded Aristocrat. The style is motivated amateurism, despite the use of the bloated vocabulary: 37 "intestate" stanza "illumined" in verse 46, it would seem that Byron strives to an effect of immediacy and franchise: "the Missal / too (this is the Missal family)."
The irony and humor are also important elements in Don Giovanni and formal structure of the poem is specially designed to meet the needs of their. Byron employs a sophisticated form called ottava rima: a form of eight stanza line with a ABABABCC rhyming scheme. Thus facilitating the conversation mode, use of ottava rima has also helps build a seemingly dramatic on the first six lines have a change of tone during the final verse, often creating an effect of bathos situation, as shown on line stanza 38, where it is delivered closing Juan learned "how to evolve a fortress - or a convent.
The Narrator is probably a character in its own right, apply a unique voice which consists of a language and a style all their own, undoubtedly dissimilar to young Juan. Such a division of the poem at the same time the relationship between history and parcel architecture. The first relates to actual events that sanctioned as Juan, it cares how these events occur, and how they are transmitted by the Narrator - a process known as focusing.
The end of the 18th century was a period of massive social upheaval, with revolutions French and American. These cataclysmic events influence inevitably writers of the age, regardless of their style. In its moments of Byron was the second most famous man in Europe after Napoleon.
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