Lord Byron and his society

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) managed, with no fear, to deal with his being.

It’s important to define the society, pre-Victorian age, at the time very conformist, in which the poet has lived the great part of his life.

Needful for adventures and liberty, he had retained from his youth a Calvinist sense of original sin; his mother unstably brought him up alternating excessive tenderness to prideful insensitivity.

No matter how much confined and aristocratic the society was, he brought about a definitive change into his readers’ minds.

The majority of his books is autobiographical and, on them, he often interrogated himself on his deeds.

On one hand, in a Victorian bourgeois environment, every time sex’s subjects were treated silence became the rule;

On the other hand,  prompted by his championing for freedom Byron outstandingly commented and declared his own thoughts and actions on this topic, anticipating the time.

He had a reverence for the Greeks, due to their culture and philosophy both withholding superior to his mind.

What really touched the Romantic poet’s spirit was the already known truth in which had been expressed the free sexuality attained by Greeks, no exclusively, towards both female and male.

In conclusion, Lord Byron’s true expression of loving and to be loved.

Byron’s facts

There are some interesting points in Byron’s life.

His father  died only three years later his birth, likely suicide; since his childhood he felt a deep love for his nurse. He had been gifted with a great sensitivity and intelligence.

Throughout his life, Byron had plenty of time where practicing a lot of sports in spite of a “clubfoot”.

While at the university, Byron began to amass the debts and was known for his breaking the rules.

In his diversions there were fencing, boxing, swimming, where he championed, theater and gambling.

It’s important to notice that whenever faced up any voyages, getting  in touch with different cultures, he unleashed his true desires.

By contrast, with his own background society, every trip had the power to awake his deepest passions and instincts.

Seen as a magnetic beauty capable of grabbing any attention, irresistible to both sex, he had been having numerous affairs.

Obsessed with how we was portraited, he often remained let down by reality for his great ideals.

Lord Byron’s voyages

George Gordon Byron has shaped his upbringing in British settings but his nature has no boundaries where to confine.

His paternal ancestors were Normans; He was born in London but since the childhood he spent his first years in Scotland, Aberdeen;

In 1801, he attended Harrow School and few years later the Trinity College at Cambridge.

By that time, already inherited his heritage from his great uncle, moved to his new estate of Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire.

In 1809, Byron participated actively in the Grand Tour, a series of stays in different European cities, as noble man he visited Lisbon, Sevilla, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta, Albany and finally Italy.

In Italy, Byron lived some years; undoubtedly he found an attractive fellowship in Venice.

There the romantic poet found himself more at home than ever before.

The gothic atmosphere created the right mélange to fit himself perfectly into the Venetian society moving through masquerade parties, gondola rides, swims to Lido’s Island and various love, one of them, his last one: the 18-year-old Teresa Guiccioli.

In 1811, there is his return home that had been marked by his mother’s mourning.

Since then, there were repeatedly scandals, as incest and homosexual’s affairs, stained his tormented life.

Once again, this time forever, he decided to leave England…

Before Belgium then Switzerland, where rejoined with his dear friend Percy Bysshe Shelley and for this live together, during a rainy weekend, stemmed out the prompting request to write down the best horror tale in which, Shelley’s wife, Mary had conceived Frankenstein.

His final years saw him in Italy before having a profound religious conversion, due to some passing who brought him to try fighting in order to get something real and valuable in Greece, the Independence.

Succeeding  posthumously although finding in it also the death in 1824 at only 36.

LORD BYRON’S SEXUALITY

On one accord, it is attested that bisexuality entails genetic and unconsciousness’ causes.

Considered at Victorian age as a capital offence, in Byron’s case, it could have not been put up for long.

From it all the pressure and the notoriety that came along with Byron, experienced in his own life.

Romantic, skeptic, religious, rebel and seducer like few others his figure became prominent overnight; precisely when he inherited titles and lands from his great uncle’s death ( 5th Lord Byron).

Described as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”, Lord Byron squandered all his heritage not recognising no qualms.

He interrogated social boundaries by going beyond all them himself, in his travels got lovers, married women, friends who turned into lovers, transgressions and queer experiences.

His bisexual tendencies and adventures enriched his life and he just can’t help fighting his own demons, letting himself be devoured by them;

The passion by which Byron lived fiercely encouraged masculine and feminine freedom; in valorizing most of all the acts as basic proof of the gender attitude.

No minding the gender; due to the conscious  nature for human being to contemplate fineness whatever sex might be.

Here, once again Greek’s culture signboards his freely innocence in turning on, in love, with no matter of boy or girl.

In fact, to start focusing on what a person felt in his heart no further schemes were worthy being postulated.

Hence observing now closer Byron’s attitude becomes clearer how he figured out the performatives acts owing to society by all its members a waste of time mirroring just the shallowest appearances.

Nowadays Lord Byron’s last fall

Considered to be the last Romantic warrior hero, his temperament has been widely acknowledged as well as his indomitable spirit.

Perhaps, the more living faster the more die younger is the truth for those who seek the utmost fleshly experience until the transcendental.

The disguise for the society’s conventions has the power to show how inadequately it had been to his eyes, even to fall into disuse for who does not rebel.

Byron underlined satirically and ironically all the paradox society can contain.

All that cannot release it from not being part and living all this dissolution.

Difficult to say but Byron would have come along with many more persons in the perspective we are living today; but his extraordinary example lasts.

Glut just few times can bring benefits; limits every time passed teach something more: what remains is a sense of being of all conditions human being can experience.

Lord Byron relished it, figuring out a response still not satisfying him; therefore in his last expedition generously chose to fight for freedom.

A freedom then taken by Greece and as for fortune and as for fame his fall to death’s arms signed his final human accompanied desire.

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