Lord Byron's Role Of Emotion In When We Two Byron

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In the poem, "When We Two Parted" by Lord Byron the role of emotion in this text is an essential part of the poems effectiveness. It is a typical romantic poem based on the expression and feeling of love, which was the common subject of the romanticism period. The romantic poets were led by their emotions through reasoning. Importantly, emotion is a part of everyday life, and it affects how people behave in society. The emotions and feelings displayed in this poem is dedicated to the common people. In other words, this poem deals with situations and emotions to which common people can relate. This poem is about love, lost and heartbreak, which every individual has experience in his/her life. Lord Byron monologue reveals his feelings, after …show more content…

Her reactions began to grow cold, she was fading away from the relationship. The first part of the poem describe the author and the woman 's attitude when they saw each other at the moment of their separation, which Byron finds unbearable. He sees her immediate response and his own emotional reaction at the time as a what their future will be like, which is nothing. They will no longer have any more relations. Next, Byron emphasizes the way he feels even now that time has past without the women he loves. He expresses the feeling of mourning and he is still in the grieving stage. The dew resembles what he is feeling now, suggesting his own emotional detachment at this point.Byron states "The dew of the morning Sank chill on my brow - It felt like the warning, Of what I feel now"(). He turns his attention to his beloved’s apparent infidelity “Thy vows are all broken And light is thy fame: I hear thy name spoken, And share in its shame" Byron explains that the promises they once made have now been broken since she has left. However, every time he hears somene speaking of her he suddenly feels ashamed of the relationship he had with …show more content…

The language he uses in his poem reflects the pain of his loss. The poem is filled with sensory imagery by the certain way he uses words and phrases. In this way, the diction appeals to an individual 's main senses. Lord Bryan puts emphasis on the noises that a person can hear as in the poem he describes the ringing of the bell, the silence and the cries. Therefore, his word choice foreshadows what will be happening in his poem. All of these are sounds associated more with death and loss indicating what the author is going through. Importantly, visual imagery is seen throughout this poem. For example, Lord Bryan uses visuals of a rosy cheek growing pale; a kiss, dew. These are all things that an individual are able to see and imagine. The repetition of “silence and tears” indicates that he is in a grieving state, this state has now become natural to him. A metaphor compares two unlike things without using like or as. Byron compares hearing his lover’s name to the ringing of a bell. This implies that women has died to him. Alliteration is also used to add emphasis to the speaker’s loss. Note the use of the harsh “K” sounds indicative of hard, destructive this resembles there relationship, which is rough and falling apart. There is also a use of an oxymoron when he says, "Colder thy Kiss".

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