Loosing through surviving
Loosing through survivingLord Byron's Euthanasia
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, Mary Chaworth, and "as she became sick of that 'lame boy', he began to see her as a symbol of the perfect, yet unattainable love, and turned his sadness into poetry." (Wolf, 19) Byron traveled and wrote a lot for the next few years and his mother died on August first, 1811. On January second, 1815, Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke. They had one daughter, Augusta Ada, on December 10, 1811. Byron and Anne Milbanke divorced one year later and Byron left London forever. Byron went to Switzerland where 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 bieng that he wasn't marred and had no proper children. "Proper" meaning that his one daughter was with her mother and his other daughter was an illegitamate child that died on April 20th, 1822., therefore leaving no proper relatives. His one other love, his half sister Augusta Leigh, who he had reportadly had many affairs with, was married so he couldn't have her. Also Lord Byron's father died while he was three and his mother when he was 23 so he had no...
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