"Byron in our Day"

In the article, “Byron in our Day”, composed by the Discovers Authors in 2003, it explains the relation between Byron and the poem, “Don Juan” written by Byron, himself. In the article it speaks of how many different emotions are reviled in the poem. It also says how “Don Juan” was the poem at which Byron was able to find himself. It was also in the poems, “Childe Harold”, “Manfred”, and “Cain” where it is said Byron was able to mature from. “Don Juan” was the first poem where Byron truly reviled his maturity. In the article it states, “When Byron discovered himself in “Don Juan”, his mind had matured, his way of life had become more wholesome, his technical ability had reached its height; what was of particular importance, he had learned to write more slowly and with greater patience; his daily stint was two octaves of “Don Juan”.” Byron was mainly a man who loved to be wild and go to parties. Many of his poems focus on love, sex, and drugs for the theme. For many people in modern time it’s the same. People today’s main priority have turned into living life to the fullest including doing things that affect their lives negatively. For Byron life seemed boring and he wanted to spice things up. People could tell Byron’s way of life through his poem. Also, in the article it states, “Byron’s view of life was, after all essentially moral. He was deeply and sincerely interested in the moral aspect of things; only, he laid the stress elsewhere than on the conventional morality of his day. That conventional morality-often a mere matter of appearances-he stigmatized as can‘t; he hated that can‘t. not comically, at bottom, but earnestly, savagely; and he assailed it with furious blows, shocked it without mercy or caution.”  it continues on staying, “ There is no doubting his sincerity when he cries out in his letters, “It is the most moral of poems,” his contempt is as genuine as it is bitter, when he says to the British nation,- “You’re not a moral people and you know it, Without the need of too sincere a poet”.”
What I read this article as, was Byron’s way of trying to reach out to the people and make them see that there is more to life than parties, sex, and drugs. After he was able to discover himself in “Don Juan” he opened his eyes to the real world. The poem “Don Juan” is about a man who lives a rough life and in the end he makes it through. Byron compares it to his own life because he too lived a rough life. I really enjoyed this article. Some of the vocabulary was tough to understand, but after looking up the words the article made more sense. When I first read the article it did not make much sense at all, disregarding the vocabulary. At first it seemed to be about ho Byron was writing the poem, “Don Juan” about his own life, after reading it a few more times and looking into it a little deeper I realized that it wasn’t about Byron, it was just the poem that helped Byron realize that there is more to life. The very first sentence in the article is, “It was in “Don Juan” that [Byron] found himself…”, but then later in the article is says, “The scheme of the poem was such as to allow him to deploy all his powers”. I read this sentence as Byron letting all of his life experiences out on paper and allowing himself to look back on his life and to see all the things that have went wrong in his past. Then, after reading the poem, it was clear that the poem wasn’t his life, it was just a rougher life than his own. He lived on the edge, then realizing that he could lose everything he’s ever loved most likely scared him. I enjoyed this article once I understood its meaning and the moral behind it. Byron’s life story is confusing because most of his life was secret, but once his secrets were reviled his poems and the article of his life become more clear.