Lord Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in London, England. He grew up in Aberdeen, attended school at Harrow and then at Cambridge. After attending school, Byron began traveling the world. He went from Lisbon, to …show more content…
Byron begins the poem by saying, "When we two parted, / In silence and tears, / Half broken-hearted, / To sever for years" (When We Two Parted 1-4). This is saying that the speaker and his woman had just broke up and that he will suffer for years to come. Byron demonstrates the idea or mourning over this woman for many years; the speaker will never let this woman go. Byron presents the idea of not being able to hear your old lover’s name by saying, "They name thee before me, / A knell to mine ear" (When We Two Parted 17-18). The speaker hears other men talking about his old girlfriend and it just the sound of her name sets the speaker off and makes him very sad. Byron is talking about how when a person is in love with someone, but get broken up with, just hearing their name makes you so sad and makes you relive the memories. Closing the poem on a sad note, the speaker says, If I should meet thee / After long years, / How should I greet thee?-- / With silence and tears” (When We Two Parted 29-32). Byron concludes the poem with a vivid description discussing the idea of the speaker seeing his past love in years to come. With silence and tears the speaker would greet his former lover. The thought of this girl makes the speaker so sad and gloomy, that he could not bare to see her …show more content…
Byron opens up the poem by saying, "Remind me not, remind me not, / Of those beloved, those vanish'd hours, / When all my soul was given to thee” (Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not 1-3). Byron shows that the speaker does not want to be reminded by the woman he spent so much time. These are the woman that he poured his soul into, but after a breakup, he can not bare to think of them anymore. Continuing on with this tragic poem, Byron gives a very detailed description of one of his prior woman by saying, "And then those pensive eyes would close, / "And bid their lids each other seek, / Veiling the azure orbs below; / While their long lashes' darken'd gloss / Seem'd stealing o'er thy brilliant cheek, / Like raven's plumage smooth'd on snow" (Remind Me Remind Not, Me Not 19-24). Byron writes about how the speaker and the woman's eyes will close and they will enter a moment of awe. This is the point where everything seems so good. The speaker clearly remembers this moment and is very somber about