Byron’s Reworking of Thomas Campbell: Unfolding Gloom in Darkness
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This article aims to investigate how Byron reworks Thomas Campbell’s The Last Man while contriving the various strata of distress and blackness in his 1816 poem Darkness. The author initially deploys the recurrent motif of the speaker’s perception of gloom and heavy heart in “My Soul is Dark” (1814), concentrating on the individual facets of pain and internal turmoil. The subsequent poem Darkness maintains the underlying theme of murkiness portrayed in the previous work, yet Byron propounds such a major poetic concern through a larger perspective of the universe and the multitude’s reactions to the dark, abhorrent circumstances. In dealing with this matter, Byron, who had a great admiration for Campbell among his contemporary writers, creatively adopts Campbell’s 1806 poem, The Last Man. The article examines how Byron’s poetic considerations rework Campbell’s text into Darkness by way of making his vigorous, creative elaborations on thematic motif,structural pattern, and diverse images. While exploring this subject, the article reverberates Byron’s other 1816 works in which he unveils his persistent reflections and psychological affiliations to desolation and distress.
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This article aims to investigate how Byron reworks Thomas Campbell’s The Last Man while contriving the various strata of distress and blackness in his 1816 poem Darkness. The author initially deploys the recurrent motif of the speaker’s perception of gloom and heavy heart in “My Soul is Dark” (1814), concentrating on the individual facets of pain and internal turmoil. The subsequent poem Darkness maintains the underlying theme of murkiness portrayed in the previous work, yet Byron propounds such a major poetic concern through a larger perspective of the universe and the multitude’s reactions to the dark, abhorrent circumstances. In dealing with this matter, Byron, who had a great admiration for Campbell among his contemporary writers, creatively adopts Campbell’s 1806 poem, The Last Man. The article examines how Byron’s poetic considerations rework Campbell’s text into Darkness by way of making his vigorous, creative elaborations on thematic motif,structural pattern, and diverse images. While exploring this subject, the article reverberates Byron’s other 1816 works in which he unveils his persistent reflections and psychological affiliations to desolation and distress.
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