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Loosing Through Surviving - College Papers

Loosing Through Surviving

George Gordon, also known as Lord Byron, was born on January 22nd, in London. Lord Byron was born witht the physical deformaty known as a "clubfoot" or lame foot. As a chail, Byron lived with his mother, Catherine Byron, in Scotland, they were fairly poor. He stayed with his mother in Scotland until he inherited the estate of the "wicked" Lord Byron, George Gordon's uncle. The estste was called Newstead Abbey. During Byron's youth he was plagued by his foot and batteled constantly with obesity. He went to school in Dulwich, in 1799, and to Harrow in 1801. In 1803 he went back to Newstead Abbey to live with his tenant, Lord Grey. It was here that he started to court his distatnt cousin, ...

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he befriended Percy Shelly, another promenent poet at the time, and became fairly obsessed with him. In 1824, after Byron had send over 4000 pounds to the Greek fleet, he sailed to join Prince Alexandros Mavrokordatos, to join his forces and fight with him. Byron contracted a fever and died on April 19th, 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece.
Lord Byron's poem "Euthanasia" was published in 1812. It reflects how Lord Byron felt about his life. It is it tells you an almost direct summary of his life when you read it.
In lines 5-8 Byron wrote:
"No band of friends or heirs be there,
To weep or wish the coming blow,
No maiden with dishevell'd hair,
To feel, or feign, decorous woe."

In this section he is lamenting about his relationships to people. Byron was only married once and that marriage ended in divorce. His wife left to visit her mother with his daughter and sent a note saying she was never coming back. He never saw hiswife or daughter again. He had no real heirs to his estate ...

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Added: 10/13/2008 04:15:00 AM
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