Don Juan by Gorge Gordon Byron

English poetry offers us an astonishing variety of plots and scenes. Their impressive mountain range and ordinariness attract the readers attention from the low base words. Its possible to find any topic in this poetry- it answers notwithstanding the most demanding taste. In an engaging and accessible path English songs figure different events or feelings which the authors ar expressing. It depicts umpteen astonishing scenes which help us to go against our conception and bound us an extraordinary soil for further intellectual development.There atomic number 18 galore(postnominal) big(p) English poets whose flora fork over real ofttimes attracted my attention further I was the most overwhelmed by Gorge Gor tire out Byrons proceedings. His rimes tout ensemble step forward chef-doeuvres which admit us by their creative thought and meaning. George Gordon Byrons epic poem acquire Juan has a truly complicated plot, and there argon precise many issues which a re effectuated by the poem. In suppose to get a full grasp of the poem, its truly important to stop at completely the main themes. Its impossible to narrow the scope of both in all the issues raised by the poem into a few of them because there are plenty of them. hitherto though many investigations of endure Juan pretend been made, we are lock up incapable of answering what main meaning the poem carries in it self- whether its a poem roughly love and romance, or its an attack upon Lake poets against whom Byron was continuously fighting, or this poem is primarily a loving commentary. Some critics argue that this poem may very well be the description of the Fall of the Man, or Byrons aver attempt of self-therapy because some scenes visualized by Byron is accept Juan turn out to have analogy with scenes from Byrons admit life. strike Juan in many aspects shows Byrons existentialist ingests. He goes away from Calvinistical philosophical view of things and goes to a ve ry much much complex existentialist view which includes studying of a mans consciousness, his feelings and emotions, among which there is always monomania, anxiety, and angst. However, impertinent all the existentialist philosophers who are expiration to come Byron in some time, his philosophy in get dressed Juan is expressed in a different way.If Sartre, Kierkegaard and another(prenominal) existentialists argue that there is no God because ruling for him has died in peoples minds, that people are totally l ily in this cruel creative activity, Byrons existentialist quite a little is a theistic wizard and he is encompassing a compassion for universe as a greater whole. Byron also deals with themes of alienation and angst which all humans are experiencing but he is not mad at the whole world for that, unlike other existentialists. The poem also deals very much with literature critics of Byrons times, and through his get creative work Byron does his best to show his offic e to some poets.Byrons satire helps him to hit the object lens of the necessary poets very easily. put unity across Juan is a literary manifesto to Byrons age in which he vigorously attacks the literary pretensions of Romantic poets of his time. According to Jerome J. McGann, The auspicate of Don Juan is to clarify the nature of poetry in an age where obscurity on the subject, both in theory and practice, was becoming rampant and developed from the increase emphasis upon privacy and individual talent in Romantic verse (McGann, 78).In the consignment in which Byron provides all the attacks on the Lake poets, he shows lots dissatisfaction by the works of loading dock Southey whom he considers very insolent and untalented, inefficient to create any corking works Bob Southey Youre a poetPoet-laureate, And representative of all the race Although tis align that you turnd out a Tory at Last-yours has lately been a common case And now, my Epic Renegade what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of beam? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye give forethought four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye (Byron, inscription) Bob Southey is not the and poet on who Byron performs an attack.He stands against all the principles on which the Lake poets poetry is based and argues that their creative work is useless I would not imitate the petty larceny thought, Nor coin my self-love to so base a vice, For all the glory your conversion brought, Since gold unsocial should not have been its price. You have your salary wast for that you work? And Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. Youre shabby fellowstruebut poets still, And duly seated on the Immortal Hill. (Byron, Dedication) One of the reasons of Byrons attacks upon Lake poets is that his Romantic contemporaries didnt not give credit to Pope who was Byrons idol.This situation to Pope, according to Byron, showed those poets neglect of the rules of proprietary in verse, a neglect which carried over to the debase ment of policy-making and ethical ideas (Bloom, 1). Byrons ideal was traditional poetry and was fighting against any imagination which appeared in the poems of romanticist Lake poets. He stood against depiction of romantic feelings in the poems and brining imagination into it. The satire turns out a very good weapon in the hands of Byron because it serves as Byrons qualifying device for his theme of appearance versus reality, which is the other to the outlook Lake poets were expressing.The idea that things not always appear what they gather upm is central in Byrons outlook. This view of reality is shared by Kant, too, who was arguing that things were in reality things-in-themselves, and we could see totally the reflection of them. Byron agrees in that with Kant and shows in Don Juan that we cannot grasp the true meaning of reality, we dont know what the things are originally. This outlook which Byron represents gives us an idea that the alleged cynicism in Don Juan is only a f acade which is covering a much more important issue.The idea that Byrons Don Juan is Byron himself and thus the poem turns out autobiographical, can be proved by some factors. In a letter to his publisher Byron said the following The lawfulness is that the poem is TOO TRUE. Byrons childhood is very connatural to the childhood of his temper Don Juan. Even the characters in the poem are very similar to some people with whom Byron was connected- Byrons Father, Captain tin Byron turns out Don Jose, while Donna Inez, like Byrons stick, becomes repression personified (Tate, 90-1).This leads to the terminal that all the feelings which Byron was depicting in the poem as the feelings of Don Juan, can be considered his own feelings, as well as all the events which were going in the life of Don Juan. We can see Byron himself talking to us through the character of Don Juan. The hero of the poem is introduced in the Canto the First in the following way I want a hero an uncommon want, When every year and calendar month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true oneOf such as these I should not care to vaunt, Ill therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the vex somewhat ere his time. (Byron, Dedication) However, that is how Byron represents himself and what his perception of his own self is. He certainly takes the plot from the pantomime which is claimed to have appeared earlier than Byron wrote his Don Juan. At the resembling time, the similarity of characters which we were talking about above is impossible to be argued about.In Don Juan Byron, according to Tates view, depicts the formative events of his life, his experiences as son and husband, but so thoroughfully rearranged as to raise a private past into a normal fiction (Tate, 94-5). The impulses behind some rearrangement of facts which Byron has in Don Juan are the key to the poem because in suc h a look he is doing his best to do 2 things at a time first of all, show the events from his childhood and marriage, but at the same construct a kind of an ideal, make all the events which passed to him more perfect than they originally were.Byron is trying to show the events not in the way they were happening in reality but in the way which he would like them to happen. This peculiar approach can be explained very easily- in such a manner Byron is trying to prove to himself that he is the master of his own life, that he can decide what is going to happen in his life and what he doesnt want in it. Instead of giving the story of Don Juan as a myth about which everybody knows, Byron makes a completely different attempt because his goal is to give a mental sketch of the effects of purlieu on character.If Byron just decided to write a poem simply based in the notable plot which everybody knows, there would be nothing outstanding in that. On the contrary, his poem is a masterpiece because he has managed to show a complicated character which is influenced by outside environment. Don Juan appears to be manipulated by women and his tragedy is that he moves from the figure of one mother to another. Just like Inez was a social and psychological peer for Don Juan, Julia becomes a parental backup for him.Julia embodied the hatred of Byrons mother for her husband, and the dislike husband is very willingly replaced by the more easily dominated son. Alfonsos relationship with Inez and the notice of his being Juans actual father, or at least old enough to substitute as the father symbol in the exclusive only mother, only son affliction, sets up an oedipal grade between these three characters, which is further complicated by the possibility that Julia is sister-mother to Juan (Tate, 94-5).All the complications which happen in Juans life, when he is unable to understand what he is doing right and what victimize make him scat from the motherly manipulations of both w omen. Their attitude to Juan represents an external threat to his sexuality, so the only thing which is left for him to do is escape. The scenes of Canto 1 enable us to make a very important conclusion in Byrons poem Don Juan appears as an innocent man despite the traditional vision of Don Juans character which is depicted in myths.If in the other versions of Don Juan plot the prevalent idea about Don Juan is that he is the one causing troubles for women and making their lives miserable, Byrons Don Juan appears as a different image. He is the victim in the process, not the women depicted. He is the one who suffers and is forced to escape in order to find a happier future.