Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Help yze the Poem "I Would I Were A Careless Child" by Lord Byron?

The poem is speaking of age and death. Lord Byron speaks of how when he was young, he had few cares and things were free, and playful and he uses vivid description showing this. He shows how he feels things were better in his youth by using the description of the highland cave, the dusky wild, the dark blue wave, the mountain's craggy side. This is something that symbolizes his age. Since he is older when writing this, he sees the things that he saw in his youth more vividly because he's lived with them for so long. It shows throughout the poem how he hates aging because he knows he has few years left, but they will be lonely and loveless. He speaks of how his loved ones are gone and how his woman his gone. With him calling her a "woman" nameless and ageless, could show his fear of age or his height of care/concern for the woman. He does speak of how she is a comforter and how he wishes he were with her, in heaven. He could also have not mentioned her name and called her woman out of respect for her memory, keeping her anonymous and mysterious.

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