I'm grappling with Child Harold these days and so it occured to me that Avon is in a way akin to Byron's heroes. Pale, attractive to women, high-born(possibly), educated, world-weary, cynical, and as a rule there's a hint that behind this mask of disinterest and cold disdain some secret past woe is deeply buried...
Here are some lines to support my theory:
Nay, smile not at my sullen brow, Alas! I cannot smile again; Yet heaven avert that ever thou Shouldst weep, and haply weep in vain.
And dost thou ask, what secret woe I bear, coroding joy and youth? And wilt thou vainly seek to know A pang, ev'n thou must fail to soothe?
Through many a clime 'tis mine to go. With many a retrospection curst; And all my solace is to know, Whate'er betides, I've known the worst.
What is the worst? Nay do not ask- In pity from the search forbear; Smile on - nor venture to unmask Man's heart, and view the Hell that's there.
N.
Natasa Tucev tucev@tesla.rcub.bg.ac.yu wrote:
I'm grappling with Child Harold these days and so it occured to me that Avon is in a way akin to Byron's heroes. Pale, attractive to women, high-born(possibly), educated, world-weary, cynical, and as a rule there's a hint that behind this mask of disinterest and cold disdain some secret past woe is deeply buried...
Here are some lines to support my theory:
Nay, smile not at my sullen brow, Alas! I cannot smile again; Yet heaven avert that ever thou Shouldst weep, and haply weep in vain.
And dost thou ask, what secret woe I bear, coroding joy and youth? And wilt thou vainly seek to know A pang, ev'n thou must fail to soothe?
Through many a clime 'tis mine to go. With many a retrospection curst; And all my solace is to know, Whate'er betides, I've known the worst.
What is the worst? Nay do not ask- In pity from the search forbear; Smile on - nor venture to unmask Man's heart, and view the Hell that's there.
N.
Blake and Jerusalem - the second verse at least
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--- Dana wrote:
Natasa quoted some lines from Childe Harold.
From a third party: "A man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection" --from Macauley's review of Moore's Life of Byron.
This appears as the epigraph to a story by Executrix called Mad Bad & Dangerous to now, on which Avon and Byron are on rather good terms during their single brief meeting.
Macaulay suggests that Byron's preference was for the mechanical style of poetry of the 18th Century, yet ended up as one of the leaders of the romantic movement which I suppose could parallel Avon's transition from looking after number one to his decision to take on the aliens in Star One, followed by his role as resistance leader after Blake's departure.
Macaulay also suggests that the Byronic creed was to hate one's neighbour and love one's neighbour's wife. Which may explain what Avon was doing with Mrs Chesku.
The other parallel between them is that they both died fighting for the cause of liberty. However as far as I'm aware Byron was not shot with his supporters by Turkish soldiers moments after he had gunned down Percy Bysshe Shelley under the misaprehension that he had betrayed them to the Turks.
Stephen.
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Stephen said:
The other parallel between them is that they both died fighting for the cause of liberty. However as far as I'm aware Byron was not shot with his supporters by Turkish soldiers moments after he had gunned down Percy Bysshe Shelley under the misaprehension that he had betrayed them to the Turks.
Byron certainly did see Shelley's body burned (albeit not on Jevron) and I suppose it's not beyond the realm of possibility that he bumped off Shelley--drowning represents a difficult forensic picture.
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