Lines Inscriped Upon A Cup Framed From A Skull

Question 1

What is the summary

Answer 1

-questioning purpose of death
-led to scandalous life + pushing norms of society
-Byron uses skull gardener found at Newstead Abbey as drinking vessel
-not conventional for drinking out of skull + disrupting natural decomposing process

Question 2

What is the context

Answer 2

-against conventions of society — 2nd gen satanic school as anti-conformist + atheist
-‘mad, bad + dangerous to know’
-distrusted moral roles/standards
-optimistic + pessimistic

Question 3

What is the metre

Answer 3

-iambic tetrameter
-gentle, rhythmic quality
-was drunk when wrote this

Question 4

What is the rhyme scheme + metre

Answer 4

-ABAB + cyclical — life begins + ends + reconnects with nature but Byron disrupts this
-6 quatrains — refrain
-disdainful tone