• George Gorgon Byron “The Spell is Broke, the Charm is Flown”

     

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Published: 29.10.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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Great romantic poet George Gorgon Byron has written this poem “the Spell is Broke, the Charm is Flown” at the age of 22. Then he was visiting Athens. And this poem is written on January 16, 1810.

This short Byron’s poem is very impressive; it is full of different feelings and emotions. It seems that poet has put his passionate heart into it. I think that in this work Byron through romantic hero expresses his emotions and sufferings. In this poem disappointment in life, in love is expressed and felt. Byron says that people are not frank and true, they pretend, they live as “wise men ought”, but, in fact, it makes then suffer. This pretence is unbearable for Byron’s hero or maybe even for him himself.…

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