romantic poets (Keats)浪漫主义诗人(济慈).ppt

Romantic Poets (II) e Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Introduction He is well known in China. Don Juan , the long satirical epic, is generally considered his masterpiece. It is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women. In the conventional sense, Juan is immoral, yet Byron takes his poem as the most moral. Byron puts into Don Juan his rich knowledge of the world and the wisdom gained from experience. It presents brilliant pictures of life in its various stages of love, joy, suffering, hatred and fear. As a leading Romanticist, Baron ’ s chief contribution is his creation of the “ Byronic hero ”, a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority in his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules either in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions. The Byronic hero became an idol of the young. But to the conservative and reactionary forces in society, Byron was a Satan and they called his poetry “ Satanic ”. The figure is, to some extent, modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron famous both at home and abroad. And in his own time, Byron ’ s poetry exerted a powerful influence on writers all over Europe, because it expressed an ardent love of liberty and a fierce hatred of tyranny. He was admired by Pushkin and Lermontov in Russia, Petofi in Hungary, Lu Xun in China and many others in Western Europe. Byron ’ s influe