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So We'll go no more a roving - Lord Byron Flashcards

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What was the poem taken from?

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-A letter to One of Byron’s close friends Thomas Moore

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what is the poem an adaption of?

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“The Jolly beggar” > a Scottish folk ballad

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What type of poem is this?

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-A Ballad

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What was Byron alluding to in the poem?

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-Older songs

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What is the ballad?

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-A short lyric poem
-Highlights themes of ageing and renunciation

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Why was Byron seen as a poet of his time (2nd Gen)?

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-Rejected earlier measurements of elegance of 16th century poets

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What did his writings and notorious persona give rise to?

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The “Byronic Hero”

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What is a “Byronic hero”?

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An archetype that:
-Defies codes of society
-Troubled background
-Sensuous and complex
-Fallen creature > forced in their ways > Motivated by their traumas

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When was the poem written?

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1817 > during a small break Byron took after partying too much during a carnival in Venice

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What is the ‘Moon’ in stanza 1 a symbol of?

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Fertility > trying to assert he is sexually capable

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Why does the poem begin with “So we”?

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-Referring to Lord Byron and those he goes out to see (women)
-All of humanity
-Conversational tone > concluding tone

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What is significant about “roving”?

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-Sexually promiscuous > hedonistic lifestyle
-Sexual mischief Byron goes on and what his nightlife entails
-Connotations to roving with a body > sexual exploits

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What could’ve happened for Byron to write this poem?

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-Realisation of his age and behaviour and that he should change his ways

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What is significant about the repetition of “Be Still”?

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-Reminder that life has not tainted even if his deeds have
-How time moves on and he is ageing yet everything is the same

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How is the poem a metaphor for age?

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-How ageing continues and is occurring but you as an individual don’t have to change

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How is the poem a metaphor for love?

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-The intimacy of love and romance ends far too early

17
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How is the poem a metaphor for sex?

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-Nightime mischief > What is desired > worn out > spiritual fatigue

18
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What does the metaphor of “for the sword outwears its sheath” explore?

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-Erotic reference to desire
-Still keen for sexual activity

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What does the metaphor of “And the soul wears out the breast” explore?

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-Byron is still prepared for the challenge of life> physically worn out but won’t give up
-Implies that age has caught up

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How does the anaphora of “And” add to the sense of fatigue in the poem?

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-Systematic feeling
-Repetition of his life has created a sense of tiredness
-his hedonistic lifestyle has drained him
-Relentlessness of the roving > neverending

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What is significant about the personification of the heart in “Heart must pause to breathe”?

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-Creates a sense of exhaustion
-Impression that the heart is a human being with its own control and life
-Dissatisfaction with his actions
-Forced to stop but wanting to continue > his sexual nature??
-Not stopping just the thought

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Why is the “night” described?

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where sin can be concealed and where private deeds can go unseen

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What is significant about the phallic imagery in stanza two>

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-Physical sexuality decaying

24
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What is portrayed in the last line of stanza two?

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-Love is not eternal > transient element in life

25
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What does each line start with?

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Anapestic rhyme

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What is significant about the cyclical structure?

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-No escape from morality or the passing of time

27
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What does the regular ABAB Rhyme scheme do?

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-Juxtaposes the poems form and the content > his erratic lifestyle

28
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What is significant about “day returns too soon”?

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-seems to have a longing tone
-dissapointed
-Thoughts are cyclical like day and night > day makes him question his night time activities

29
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What is significant about the shift from “bright” to “light”?

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-Sense of deflation > loss of purpose

30
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What is the chiasmus?

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-The parallelism of the moon
-feminity and the seductress > tempting him to indulge in that lifestyle

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What is significant about the adverb “yet” in “yet we we’ll go no more a roving”?

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-Despite his want to quite his roving he has to follow this > change in heart

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