Lord Byron Influences

Lord Byron was a notorious writer that influenced and gave light to many events, life subjects, and even other writings. Byron was known for writing poems that could be viewed In many different ways. A perfect example of his art can be the short poem titled “Darkness”. According to an article, “7 Real Natural Events that Inspired Works of Science Fiction” written by Lauren Davis, Byron was in a small group that included other writers such as: Mother of Frankenstein, Mary Shelly and author of the poem The Vampyre, John William Polidori. According to the article written by Mrs. Davis, all the authors were in the month of April in 1815 during a volcanic eruption that caused total darkness in Indonesia. The author of the article states “In April …show more content…
This is where he drew his INSPERATION from. I stress the word ”Inspiration” because that all it was. Byron was influenced by the event of the volcanic eruption to make a commentary of mankind. . He used the event to draw inspiration by making a fictional world of savage men and women who basically go crazy and go the extent of even burning the woods, which can be referenced to a source of life since we get oxygen from trees. “”forests were set on fire- and the cackling trunks extinguishe’d with a crash”(lines 19-20). This on sentence shows how Byron turned men into beast. This Is also the way Byron wrote. Readers can interpret this in many ways. These two lines may say that men were actually setting the forest on fire to have a source of light. This may also mean that Byron was trying to reference how the volcanic ash wasn’t what, but mankind were the ones destroying life. Maybe Byron had seen so much life destruction with pollution or maybe plans of the progressive era were starting to be seen as forests were being swept away to start the progressive era and many businesses were looking at Indonesia to establish factories there. A good example of this can be L’oreal. On the online news reports names “Print world Asia” and article was released named “L 'Oréal Inaugurates the World 's Largest Factory in Indonesia” which states that …show more content…
If this natural event had never occurred Lord Byron had maybe never of written this poem. Lord Byron used this poem to open the eyes of readers about how humans were treating the earth or maybe it was just a ways of art to add some sort of action to the story. The view of the reader may vary, but historical events of factory building and Byron’s location correlate to this theory. Lord Byron was known for making stories and poem that sort of had a cliff ending which means that it may be interrupted in many ways and a reader can make their own conclusions based on what they read and what clues and hints they pick up. Byron Did not write about what was causing the darkness outside, but he did write about a volcano. But what he mainly stresses is how the Earth is sort of decaying and how men are setting the forest ablaze and basically destroying one another before the Earth has a chance to hit the people with a heavy rain or another sort of storm. All the Earth is told to be doing is standing still and the destruction from humans. Maybe Byron wanted to tell readers that there was too many negative things happening in the Earth that were being caused by humans and that the Earth was not the one to blame for its conditions but it was mankind itself. Or maybe Byron wanted to open the eyes of readers to tell them that they should be working together