Wednesday, January 5, 2011

It's like a parallel universe! {Blog Community}

The blog Lord Byron is a blog made by Sydney Leliefeld, Alejandra Hernandez, Natasha King, and  Danielle Henry featuring George Gordon, Lord Byron and the many aspects of his life and writing. The colors are soft, moody, and dark; a good reflection of Romanticism itself.
The picture of Byron in the upper left hand corner is a nice touch, adding a piece that gives the person looking at the blog a sense of being able to relate to an actual face rather than words. Overall, the colors and slight opacity of the main table make the site appealing to the eye. The font is easy to look at when against the dark background.
Lord Byron has a variety of information regarding Byron's life, including a post on the sexual scandals he was involved in. It also highlights some of his poems with reasonable opinions by the poster, while also explaining the writing itself.

The post that really caught my eye was written by Natasha King and explains the Byron poem "We'll Go No More A Roving." It has a picture of Byron at the top with the poem underneath, followed by an in-depth description and evaluation of the poem. It tells you what the piece is about, and also connects how it was possibly significant in Byron's life. It was very well written with important details that expresses King's interpretations of the poem alongside supporting evidence found within the text.

I also found that this blog had an informative post alongside a video that explored the sexual and scandalous aspect of Byron's life, which was very interesting and not a topic I've seen explained in detail. This also interested me, because in the article I chose, it touched bases with a few similar themes. This part was something I thought intriguing and didn't know:
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His memoirs were so explicit and crude that they were not published and it was decided that they'd never be seen by the public. Byron's closest friends gathered one month after his death in May, 1824, and burned them. Most of the poetry that have published are still seen today as provocative, even in a society filled with sex, drugs and war."

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