Poetry has a long standing reputation for being boring, but poems from the Romantic era are anything but. Romantic poetry, despite the name, aren’t just about love. These poems are about tragedy and sorrow, and the inevitability of death and its effects on our lives. Lord Byron does a fantastic job of combining literary devices in poetry to create some of the most heart-wrenching and emotional poems ever written. And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair by Lord Byron exhibits nature imagery, personification, and parallelism to create a tone of overwhelming sadness and love. Lord Byron uses imagery in order to create a locus classicus of romantic era poetry. In And thou art Dead, as Young and Fair, the most common use of imagery is to describe nature. Byron uses nature imagery to compare the deceased to the divine beauty of nature:
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(Byron)
However, this stanza also has a second meaning when it is read again. Rather than being distraught at this woman’s death, Lord Byron implies that it’s better that the woman in the poem died early rather than aging and growing ugly like a flower in winter. This comparison negates the loving tone in the poem for some people. But even so, the imagery in And thou art Dead, as Young and Fair sets the tone of love and despair at the fact that this beautiful person, like the flower she’s compared to, died too soon. And thou art Dead, as Young and Fair, like many Romantic era poems, uses themes of nature in them. Lord Byron uses this common nature imagery to compares the woman to the sky in one stanza: Thy day without a cloud hath pass'd,
And thou wert lovely to the last,
Extinguish’d, not decay'd; As stars that shoot along the
(Byron)
However, this stanza also has a second meaning when it is read again. Rather than being distraught at this woman’s death, Lord Byron implies that it’s better that the woman in the poem died early rather than aging and growing ugly like a flower in winter. This comparison negates the loving tone in the poem for some people. But even so, the imagery in And thou art Dead, as Young and Fair sets the tone of love and despair at the fact that this beautiful person, like the flower she’s compared to, died too soon. And thou art Dead, as Young and Fair, like many Romantic era poems, uses themes of nature in them. Lord Byron uses this common nature imagery to compares the woman to the sky in one stanza: Thy day without a cloud hath pass'd,
And thou wert lovely to the last,
Extinguish’d, not decay'd; As stars that shoot along the