Literary Analysis of Lord George Gordon Byron Capturing...

Love is responsible for the greatest tragedies in life which leaves a resounding impact on people. Lord George Gordon Byron was a Romantic poet who was alive from January 22, 1788 to April 19, 18241. During his life he was a man of many relationships with most of them ending unsuccessfully and in heartbreak. His first love, Mary Ann Chaworth, broke his heart when he overheard her disdainfully say to her maid â€Å"Do you think I could care anything for that lame boy?†2 when he believed they really had something special. Another woman, Caroline Lamb, remained infatuated with Bryon after a brief love affair in which he moved on quickly while she remained head over the heels for him long after2. The characteristics of his poetry generally†¦show more content†¦Now she is gone and only the worst days can belong to him. His sense of sorrow is driven home a little deeper. The contrasting differences between the two poems targets the painful emotions that come with fall ing out of love. While there are contrasts to Byron’s poems they also share many similarities in the way the theme of lost love is developed and the love prospects portrayed. Both poems are centered around the end of the relationship which is symbolized with the passing of the day into night or night into day. In â€Å"We’ll Go No More A-roving† â€Å"though the night was made for loving,/And the day returns too soon,/†¦ we’ll go no more a-roving.†. The successful part of the relationship was compared to the duration of the night, much like Shakespeare’s â€Å"Romeo and Juliet† in which the secret lovers can only meet in the dark because when â€Å" Nights candles are burnt out, and jocund day/ Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. / I must be gone and live, or stay and die.†4, relating this to â€Å"We’ll Go No More A-roving† the couple spends time â€Å"a-roving† at night and like the inevitable return of day, the night ends and so does the love the two lovers have for each other. The connection to the cycle of the day in â€Å"And Thou Art Dead As Young and Fair† is to the length of